Why Rev needs a cookbook (newb questions)

[Peter Alcibiades]

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