Re: Is there a tutorial for Property Inspector, Standalone window

2005-03-30 Thread Dan Shafer
Steve Why don't you post the stack on RevOnline? Dan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re:Is there a tutorial for Property Inspector, Standalone window

2005-03-25 Thread steve messimer
on 3/25/05 12:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve I have to say that's one of the best Rev overview/introductory things I've seen. I saw it before but never went all the way through it. This should get wider dissemination somehow. Dan Hey Dan! Thanks so

Is there a tutorial for Property Inspector, Standalone window and message box menubar?

2005-03-24 Thread Stgoldberg
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

Re: Is there a tutorial for Property Inspector, Standalone window

2005-03-24 Thread steve messimer
on 3/24/05 2:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a tutorial for Property Inspector, Standalone window Hi Steve, Over a year ago I built a stack that I used to introduce new users to Revolution 2.0. You may find this helpful. It is not current with 2.5 so

Re: Is there a tutorial for Property Inspector, Standalone window and message box menubar?

2005-03-24 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: Is there a tutorial for Property Inspector, Standalone window and message box menubar?

2005-03-24 Thread Howard Bornstein
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

Re: Is there a tutorial for Property Inspector, Standalone window and message box menubar?

2005-03-24 Thread Mikey
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

Re: Is there a tutorial for Property Inspector, Standalone window and message box menubar?

2005-03-24 Thread Judy Perry
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

Re: Is there a tutorial for Property Inspector, Standalone window and message box menubar?

2005-03-24 Thread Judy Perry
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.

Is there a tutorial for Property Inspector, Standalone window and message box menubar?

2005-03-24 Thread Stgoldberg
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

Re: Is there a tutorial for Property Inspector, Standalone window

2005-03-24 Thread Dan Shafer
PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a tutorial for Property Inspector, Standalone window Hi Steve, Over a year ago I built a stack that I used to introduce new users to Revolution 2.0. You may find this helpful. It is not current with 2.5 so there will be differences. However the implementation is very

Is there a tutorial for Property Inspector, Standalone window and message box menubar?

2005-03-23 Thread Stgoldberg
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