New User's First Questions!

[tolerant2]

Hello everyone!

I am brand new to Revolution and just started experimenting with it a few days ago. It is my intention to use Revolution to write a sort of study game for my teaching course.

I am writing here with a few simple questions, hoping that someone may be able to provide answers.

While I realize that most (if not all) of the questions I am about to ask could be answered independent of this forum given a thorough reading of the user guide, I thought it might be worth a shot to put them out there just in case... (I don’t think it can hurt after all).

So here they are:

1) How do you set an image as a background, even if the image is not included in the card? (And can I set a different image for the background of each different card?)

2) Is it possible for the stack to automatically adapt to different screen resolutions?

3) How do you set continually looped background music, with different music on different cards?

4) How do you script multiple actions for button selections? (Namely the playing of music and text upon clicking)

5) How do you write static text onto a card (ie not labels), but just instructional text?

6) How do you set a startup splash/loading screen (ie like MS Word)?

7) Is it possible to automatically animate a transition between two cards (like the push/pull transitions in PowerPoint)?

Thank you in advance for advice in any amount great or small!

[FourthWorld]

That covers a lot of ground, so rather than attempt to go into detail I'll just list some tokens to look up in the Rev Dictionary to get you started; post back here with any specifics that aren't clear:

1. backgroundPattern

2. rect property of stack, screenRect, working screenRect, windowBoundingRect

3. Player controls

4. mouseUp

5. field with lockText property turned on, traversalOn property turned off

6. Make a stack, have your startup handler toplevel it

7. See the visual command (lots of nice built-in transition effects, and if you're using QuickTime you can use the "answer effect" command to get even more)

HTH -

[tolerant2]

Thanks for the help!

I have another question to any one out there who might possibly know the answer.

How do I get an image to remain the same size after I have re-sized it? Every time I close Revolution and start it back up again, the image changes size.

[Mark]

Dear tolerant2,

Set the lockLoc of the image to true. You can do this by script or in the position and sizes pane of the property inspector for any particular image.

Best,

Mark