Back in the first days of HyperCard, for those who remember it in the late
'80s, the very first manual contained very little about scripting, but
contained
a very useful walkthrough of HyperCard's other features. This was followed
by the excellent books by Danny Goodman and Dan Shafer
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Another thing that would help here:
In HyperCard, some of the more rudimentary actions that a button could
have (go to card, play a sound, etc.) could be accessed through the
button's properties, without needing to write any scripts. This is
likely
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 07:02:56 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would not have gotten involved with Revolution, though, without having
that previous experience with HyperCard, since the program seems to presume
significant prior knowledge on the part of the user.
How the
Because now they have the Tao blog.
Sorry, had to get that in there.
Isn't the Yahoo documentation group out there?
I'd love to take the entire documentation project on myself in return
for a couple of licenses. At least then I'd a) learn everything there
was to know, and b) get the thing
Thank you for reiterating my long-standing request for an index!!!
(somewhere, no doubt, one or m ore listees are gritting teeth...) @;-)
Judy
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Revolution is a remarkable program, but it is
going to steer away potential new users if it does not
Or, develop some of the helper stacks with pre-canned scripted objects for
common or interesting things for users to copy-paste into their own stacks
that Hypercard used to have.
Agan, while some of these things are already available, the organization
isn't such that they're immediately obvious.
Whoops! In referring to Danny Goodman and Dan Shafer's excellent Hypercard
books some years ago, I inadvertently then referred to Danny Goodman's new
book on Revolution. Of course, this should be Dan Shafer, who has put so
much fine effort into the project.
Steve Goldberg
I am a new user of Revolution. Can anyone suggest a tutorial that provides
a step-by-step explanation of:
1. The property inspector. While certain features are obvious and
intuitive, there are others that I find baffling (Database? Inks?) and I did
not find
in the User Guide.
2. The
