Learning Revolution

[Karen]

Sarah,

Thanks very much for the alternating coloured line code, I'll need to try
that out.

Regarding REALbasic's tutorial, it builds a little text editor program,
which helps introduce the user to a lot of the various tools within the IDE,
as well as how to build some fairly simple user interface elements.  It
forms a nice bridge between the documentation and someone trying to start to
build a program.  It doesn't take things too far in terms of complexity -
which I think is fine - most people will find enough to get them trying
things for themselves.

REALbasic has also been well served by things like the Applelinks REALbasic
University series 
http://www.applelinks.com/p5/index.php/more/realbasic_university_archive/
which did some good tutorials.  The series later developed into a PDF based
magazine REALbasic Developer.

I'm hoping to see Dan's book arrive before too long (well - hopefully before
too long), as I'm sure it is probably the missing piece of information for
Revolution.

Thanks,

Karen

On 8/3/05 11:18 pm, "use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com"
<use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Message: 12
> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:14:40 +1000
> From: Sarah Reichelt <sarahr at genesearch.com.au>
> Subject: Re: Learning Revolution
> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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> Hi Karen,
> 
>> The biggest problem that I find is knowing what to look for in the
>> online
>> references.  For example, I tend to think of the commands in
>> "REALbasic"
>> terms, so to split a string I would be thinking of "Left", "Right",
>> "Mid"
>> and "InStr" commands.
> If you use those commands a lot, you're going to LOVE Revolution's
> string handling abilities :-)
> 
>> I'm still trying to figure out things such as alternate coloured lines
>> in a
>> list
> That's a tricky one, but there was a example posted a while ago. I
> worked out a variation on it, which I will post in a separate email for
> better searchability.
>> 
>> The best advert for Revolution at the moment is the user list - I've
>> never
>> met such a helpful and friendly group of people so willing to answer
>> questions.  But, to me, Revolution badly needs a good tutorial
>> (something
>> along the lines of the one offered for REALbasic would be a good
>> start) that
>> goes a little further into the details than the video tutorials -
>> helpful as
>> they are.  It could also do with help on using the development
>> environment
>> (I've probably missed this and will be embarrassed when it is pointed
>> out!).
> I used RealBasic several years ago, but not lately. What does their
> tutorial do? Maybe we could put a similar thing together for Rev.
> 
> Cheers,
> Sarah