Hi Tim,
I understand what you are saying but I'm not sure I agree with your
idea of the what the docs are for. I see them as a reference guide,
not a tutorial. For learning Revolution, you need other resources:
the built-in tutorials, the scripting conference stacks, Dan's book,
this list and the other resources available on the net.
I too was a long-time HyperCard user, but I didn't learn HyperTalk by
using the HyperCard manuals. I learnt from Dan Shafer's book
"HyperTalk Programming" and from the HyperCard list. The docs were
only used as a reference to check the syntax of a command I knew I
wanted to use or to look up the variations of a command.
When I converted to Revolution, I read the list of entries in the
Transcript dictionary, mainly so I could get a feel for what sort of
things were available to me. Many I already knew, and some where
completely new to me, so I stopped to read them, but the main object
at that stage was to give myself an idea of what commands I could
use, if I needed them in the future.
Then I did all the tutorials and then put together a test stack where
I wrote code snippets that tried out some of the new commands that I
knew I would use immediately.
Now I realize that there are many different learning styles (there
are people on this list far more qualified to talk about that than I
am), but I just wanted to let you know that it IS possible to learn
Revolution from the available material.
To use a weak analogy, it is as if you are annoyed because a French
dictionary is not teaching you how to speak French :-)
Cheers,
Sarah
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