This started out because I have set a goal for myself to both optimize my code using my own functions for common tasks and to also comment the heck out of my code. Something I have grown slack in doing lately. The last two projects i did were successful and did turn into products but I was not completely satisfied with my work. The one project made use of a Flash front end that then ran my Rev app after an intro video done out of house. The other involved using a commercial software that Rev was the front end. It used Portfolio as an image library and used Rev as a sign in and guide to using the software.
This project is actually a prototype of software we are developing for use in smart phones and PDAs. We design it quickly for features and for viewing on a laptop with a data projector and then we send the project with a specifications sheet to our engineers who then have to match what we have done in a real phone. I have to be very careful that we don't put things in that can't be done in 'real' life on a phone. But that is what I'm good at so it's actually a lot of fun. I know that rev can handle this and once I get this first one finished I should then be able to add 'features' to it with ease. The Director programmer always seemed to leave out this ability. I wanted to change one icon and it took five days for him to get it back to us. I would have put the icons in a folder and allowed us to dump new ones in anytime we needed to.
Well, Thanks again
Tom
On Apr 21, 2005, at 5:47 PM, Brian Yennie wrote:
I did end up using the lineoffset and that works for what I am doing, but this would have been the way I did it before in SuperCard.
That'll work, but keep in mind it mostly defeats the speed of "for each". Incrementing a counter would preserve the speed advantage over other structures.
Thomas McGrath III wrote:PS.. I have decided to take on our Director programmer after reading the threads about Adobe buying MM out. Before I felt that he had a lot of time invested and although I knew I could do this I didn't want to push him out. Now however I figured that it was a good time to 'recreate' in REV what he has been doing in MM Director for the past two years. I know REV can handle it especially since we are no longer posting a live version straight on the web of our software.
I'd be interested to learn how that comes out. Please keep me posted.
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