Newbie How do i see script of Demo stacks

[jpottsx1]

Hi, I'm a new user and want to go through the tutorial lessons but I cannot figure out how to see the scripts from the demo downloads.

Also, How do I "tear appart" a stack and get a view of the cards. For example the "Using Tabs" lesson switches between cards and I can't loate them to view them?

Jeff

[FourthWorld]

Where is this demo located?

[jpottsx1]

The demo file is located at: http://lessons.runrev.com/spaces/lesson ... ab-Buttons,
and the file itself is located at: http://lessons.runrev.com/spaces/lesson ... on_id=7574.

I'm coming from Filemaker and from NSBasic where I can go to the scripts section or to view the layouts and dbl click to get the object scripts before compiling. Here I get a compiled app when I open the tutorial file.

[FourthWorld]

There is no "compiled app" per se; one of the benefit of Rev is that it liberates the developer from the runtime-compile cycle.

What you have are objects, which have scripts in them. As soon as you close the script editor they're compiled and ready to run, right in the IDE.

The step-by-step instructions in that tutorial guide you to where the code is. You'll find bits and pieces in various objects throughout the stack. Going through the tutorial should provide a good introduction to how and why the objects and their scripts are laid out as they are.

[jpottsx1]

I understand what you've said, however have you tried to gain access to the cards that are part of the solution? Each one has its own set of butons etc. How do I get to those items? In filemaker I have layouts that are available, and scripts that I can edit independant of the forms. So I ask where are these in the demo. How do I get to them.

Double clicking on the obvious objects of the tab panel provides one script. Where are the rest

Jeff

[jpottsx1]

The tutorial states that I should click on the tab and edit the object script.
The script should be an "on mouseup" but it is:

on menuPick pItemName
switch pItemName

end switch
end menuPick

[bn]

jpottsx1,

The script should be an "on mouseup" but it is:

on menuPick pItemName
switch pItemName

end switch
end menuPick

you can replace the script in the tabb panel with

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on mouseUp
--your script here
end mouseUp

just as the tutorial says. If you look at the tutorial stack it uses in the tab panel in the first stack "on mouseUp" to navigate between the cards. Here you could also say

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on menuPick theItem
  go card theItem
end menuPick

it is just a different way of coding, the main difference beeing that you have a parameter theItem that you get sent automatically in the latter case.
regards
Bernd

[jpottsx1]

ThX for the clarification . . . it went a long way to better understanding things. I also discovered that the joy of Runrev is its simplicicty. The Object browser was what was missing for me to better understand the problem.