"proof-of-concept" Revolution Online Open Dictionary at revcoders.org

Josh Mellicker josh at dvcreators.net
Thu Nov 1 04:09:46 EDT 2007


Good example!

I posted a code snippet to do this here:

http://revcoders.org/vScroll/#comment-32

Of course, presently, you would have to know to look under  
"vscroll"... so I am working on a much better search page.

For someone new to Revolution, the best thing is not reading the term  
dictionary, but a step-by-step tutorial that introduces the student  
to Revolution and the foundations of RAD, then guides them through  
the creation of a complete project, hands-on. Richard's idea of  
building a word processor is a good one, it covers many commonly used  
functions.

The open dictionary is not for learning Revolution, it is for  
reference on specific terms for someone who has been through the  
basic tutorials and just needs examples of how to accomplish common  
tasks.


On Nov 1, 2007, at 12:40 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote:

> Ken puts it exactly, and far far better than I managed to.  Sorry.
>
> A trivial example from my early days with Rev.  I had a scrolling  
> field into
> which a user pastes lines of text by hitting enter.  At a certain  
> point the
> text gets too long for the window, and he/she has to scroll down.   
> I realize
> this is a chore, and want the window to scroll with the entries so  
> the last
> one is always visible.  But how?
>
> Imagine you're a real novice with Rev.  How do you set about  
> finding out?  You
> just start looking things up.  You look
> up 'scroll',  'autoscroll', 'find', 'select', 'put'....and so on.
>
> It is like trying to find the French for 'dog' from a French-English
> dictionary.  If only you knew it was 'chien' you could look it up....
>
> Now I don't personally mind this way of learning, or the fact that  
> you learn a
> lot of stuff which is irrelevant to your immediate purpose on the  
> way.  But a
> lot of people just cannot hack it, and these are the ones you'll  
> lose if you
> don't have a more immediate way of getting to purposes.
>
> Yes, what Ken describes is a good way of doing it.
>
> Peter
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