On Feb 21, 2005, at 11:22 AM, Mikey wrote:
Gang, I've used HC for FOREVER. We have several active stacks that are still part of our corporate structure. However, we also use a number of other IDE's, so before we fork over for yet another toolkit, I need to be able to justify it.
If you're using HC extensively, you're gonna love Rev! I guarantee it.
they're right. I'll answer the questions I know the answers to. Others will, I'm sure, be answered by other folks.Please forgive all the noob questions. I'm sure I'll have a pile of them. The RR people have told me I need to go over here to get them answered.
You cannot create your own classes. Transcript (Rev's language) is not object-oriented. Custom properties are immensely useful but they do not take the place of the ability to create whole new classes or types of buttons or other objects.1) Can I create my own classes? I see somewhere that I can create custom properties, but I didn't see how.
(Custom properties are on the dropdown menu in each object inspector.)
There is a fair amount of great stuff available. Shao Sean has created an SMTP/POP email library that is dead-simple to use and extensible if you need it. Andre Garzia has created servers of a number of flavors and is always up for creating new ones.2) Is there more internet protocol code available, e.g. POP3, SMTP, telnet, etc.? I know I can write it since I wrote my own mail server in another IDE, but I'd prefer not to.
Acutally, the docs are far from sparse, they're just not immediately obviously usable. Every single element of the Transcript syntax has an entry in the online docs, which are really quite good.3) Is UDP supported in the sockets goop? 4) Is there some way to have substacks or different stacks running in different processes? 5) Where the heck are the manuals? It's hard to RTFM when the docs that come with the demo are, to say the least, sparse.
And I have modified a substantial portion of my HyperTalk book to create "Software at the Speed of Thought," a book available through the RunRev online store.
6) Report writer - not included with the demo, need to know more.Report writing is not a strength with Rev. You can do some basic stuff and, with some serious scripting, some not-so-basic stuff. But serious reporting will require a third party add-on. There isn't one in release yet but one of our stalwart members is close to releasing a dynamite product that works better than Reports for HyperCard ever did.
Not really. Rev has the ability to render a small (tiny) subset of HTML in text fields. This enables some use of formatted text but not much. However, Altuit, a major player in the Revolution space, offers a fairly complete implementation of a full-blown Web browser component as altBrowser, which you can buy petty cheap.7) It appears that there is an HTML-rendering window type included, but I don't see any documentation on it.
8) It would appear that the only difference between the versions of RR is SSL. Is that right?
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