Richard,
My first successful project doing the 3 criteria evaluation was in SuperCard over seven years ago. Once I figured out 'a method' for the eval part then I needed to store temporary lists of the evaluated lines and do a lot of reseting of button/images based on the new lists. Clicking one button would start the eval based upon what button it was and the system would need to see that button as mykey1 in slot item 1 across multiple lines, then a second button click would only search those found lines and produce a list based on those two criteria and then a third button would do the same to produce a final list matching all three in a 'live' sort of way as the user was pressing buttons. Then if the user decided they wanted to back out of a sequence to the second or first button I would keep the temp lists around for that. Oh yeah and each button has three states (available to press, unavailable to press, and a while being pressed state- mouseDown) which are driven by the info in the database. The old system used 128 buttons but this new one is only using 18 buttons so it will be a lot less cumbersome to deal with.
Have you considered using a list for that selection so you don't have to make so many buttons?
I knew I could do this, but in SC it became so cumbersome and that memory is one part that kept me from attempting it again in Rev for so long. But I am ready now since I have a need to do it. I think the memory of taking this on again is what drove me to letting our Director guy handle it in the first place. I will post some samples once I start that part. The scripts will be all new using Rev's more powerful features and the biggest part will be not falling into my old thinking which was based on the 'limitations' in SC. Therefore, I am not going back and reading 'any' of my old scripts but rather forcing myself to start fresh and find new better ways.
The older I get, the more I throw code away. I used to think code was important, but much of the time what I've learned since I wrote it is really more valuable.
Starting from scratch can be very refreshing. With my products I tend to use major upgrades as an opportunity for a complete rewrite...
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation __________________________________________________ Rev tools and more: http://www.fourthworld.com/rev _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
