Bill Marriott wrote: "You're joking, right?"
Har, har, har . . . I wish I were (and by George I have a difficult time explaining that Subjunctive outburst to my adult students here in Bulgaria). I spend most of my programming time making really very goofy standalones (that run on Linux) that allow little children to click on choice images or enter text into text boxes (well, blast-yer-eyes, it pays for the bread and cheese). My main concern is to do with background images . . . I copy-paste them on to each blessed card - because the screw-ups that seem to happen with backgrounded images, buttons and so forth, when I move the stacks from one of my Macs onto the Ubuntu boxes down in the school (my flat is in the attic and my school is in the basement - all a bit cavemanlike!) are a real pain in the B.T.M. Unless one is a bit nutty and wants to propagate a button across a thousand cards (!) I can't see what the beef is - one can easily modify the scripts at any time with a nifty for-next loop that shuffles its way through the cards. Backgrounds in RR are not at all the same thing as backgrounds in the dearly departed HC - and I eschew them as being more trouble than they are worth. I am also, a bit of a slob, at least in terms of designing tight little stacks for the following reasons: 1. I have a dual-processor mirror-door G4 Mac which is 4 years old, and, in computer terms, horribly out-dated - but the 1 GB of RAM it sports seems to make mince-meat of anything RR-wise I can chuck at it. 2. The Ubuntu boxes down in the basement with their 700 MHz Pentium 3 processors and 128 MB RAM fail to complain about the EFL stacks I run on them. 3. Does backgrounding an image or a button make a sufficiently visible speed difference that the end-user notices any sort of difference at all? 4. My problem - with my G4, at least - is trying to find time to slurp the next drop of coffee, before the next thing happens. Now, I may be a bit cognitively challenged (???), but a computer that pops stuff up on the VDU (err, "monitor") faster than my little grey cells can cope with it is failing me. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson ____________________________________________________________ I have just read and signed the online petition: "Hinge & Bracket" hosted on the web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online petition service, at: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/HandB/ I personally agree with what this petition says, and I think you might agree, too. If you can spare a moment, please take a look, and consider signing yourself. Richmond Mathewson ____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from your Internet provider. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution