Why Rev needs a cookbook (newb questions)

[stephen barncard]

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Stephen Barncard
San Francisco
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2009/5/9 Stephen Cox <stephen at networkxfla.com>

> Why not just comment - leave notes - in the online Dictionary? That be easy
> for all to di and help a lot.
>
>
> On 5/9/09 2:59 AM, "Peter Alcibiades" <palcibiades-first at yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > 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 that¹s 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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