Why Rev needs a cookbook (newb questions)

[runrev260805 at m-r-d.de]

Hi,

a cookbook would be a good idea not only for beginners.

Btw.: I am using THE SCRIPTER'S SCRAPBOOK from Flexible Learning as a cookbook. I am collecting all code snippets, i find usefull, in it.
There are so many tricks, hints and code sample in this uselist, which i might need some time. So the SSBK is ideal for that.


Regards,

Matthias



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Why Rev needs a cookbook (newb questions) (09-Mai-2009 9:02)
From:    Peter Alcibiades <palcibiades-first at yahoo.co.uk>
To:      runrev260805 at m-r-d.de

> I said this before, but its why Rev needs a cookbook on the lines of Carla 
> Schroder's great  "Linux Cookbook"
> 
> Steven Cox's queries illustrate the problem very clearly. Imagine a kitchen 
> 
> with lots of pots and pans and ingredients in it.  It comes with a 400 
> page guide detailing the function of every one.
> 
> We now have an intelligent Martian who has just been employed as a cook.  
> His first assignment is spaghetti carbonara, or cassoulet.  Where does he 
> start?
> 
> What he has is a superb kitchen manual.  What he wants is a cookbook, with 
> a systematic set of entries like this (from the Rev for C programmers 
> page):
> 
> "To filter a handler so that it only responds to certain objects, rather 
> than every object below it in the hierarchy, use the target function to 
> determine which object originally received the message being handled.
> 
> "To create a code library, place the handlers you want to re-use in any 
> object that’s available in your a stack, then use the insert script 
> command to add that object to the hierarchy."
> 
> So what Steven is looking for is a cookbook with entries like "to empty a 
> field......"    "to check for a variable.....".  "to make elements in a 
> list field clickable...."  "to change the mouse to a hand while 
> hovering..."
> 
> Without this, learning becomes a Zen like experience.  You know the story 
> of the young man wanting to learn swordsmanship?  He enrols with a master, 
> and the first day when expecting to meet for a lesson, is astonished to be 
> hit violently over the head with a stick.  His master has sneaked up on 
> him.  As time goes by the attacks continue and become more and more 
> devious.  One day he is about to enter a room and something makes him 
> pause.  His master emerges from behind the door and bows deeply.
> 
> Its OK.... but a recipe book is easier.
> 
> Peter
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