Returning to my computer after a three days' absence I very much like to join the queue of people congratulating Ruchard on his "FWTranscriptDictionary". I think that for most of us it is more of a "final" language guide solution.
The FWTranscriptDictionary is only 2.5 MB, whereas my modified Rev Transcript Dictionary for use with Metacard (see my post "Using the Transcript Dictionary in Mc" of Tuesday) comprises 4.9 MB (including the Docs Library, a modified preference stack, a substack with the special icons, the glossary stack and the quick reference stack).
The functionality of my modified Transcript Dictionary under Metacard is identical to that of the Dictionary in the Rev IDE with the exception of the printing option (which could also be added).
The modified "search card" of the revdocumentation stack is another 200 K.
As this "Metacard Transcript Dictionary" is fully functional - I have integrated it into my Metacard Menu Bar, alongside with Richards "slim" and quick (and very creative) solution - I could offer the stack to be uploaded to the new Metacard IDE site. Anybody interested could have a look how it was done or even use it with the original "Rev functionality".-
Sooner or later, me thinks, a dictionary shell to access Rev dictionaries in parallel to MC's will have to be incorporated into the IDE self since it is clear that most people will want/need it and it makes little sense that each of us needs to go through extra installation. But we should probably wait a bit to see whether Rev changes its setup with new releases.
Richard had also raised copyright questions, which indeed did not stop him from extracting the text contents and more of the Dictionary.
I think there are two arguments that may rule out any copyright problems:
1. To use Revolution and/or Metacard or any part of it you need to have a valid license, either a Revolution license or a Metacard license. After July 2004 - at least - all Metacard licenses will have expired, so all of us will then hold a Revolution license of some kind.
Yes, but the latter is not quite correct. We may be expected to get a Rev license after July 2004 but we are not required, and some people may choose to continue without a valid license.
2. As early as during the first development period of Revolution - I belong to the crowd of enthusiastic beta testers (before Revolution went public) - Kevin Miller had stated that the Revolution IDE will remain fully customizable like Metacard with the exception of the home/license stack.
The conclusion then can only be that all contents of the Revolution IDE and all scripts in the IDE can be used and freely modified by any licensed user, meaning also anybody who likes to adapt the Metacard IDE to the present and future enhancements of the functionality of Revolution.
Being able to modify for your own usage is one thing, but MC IDE is a parallel environment, to some degree "competing" with Rev IDE. WHat I mean is that MC IDE development is not exactly governed by normal end-user license as far as I see.
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