Time for something more meaningful!

Hello world is good for a start but nothing more than this.
I want to enter text in two fields then combine it with some
other text from drop down list and display the result in
another field.
I put two text entry field and an option menu widget
and a label box.
Seems reasonable now I just have to find the correct commands
but it will have to wait until tomorrow.

Hello World!

Traditionally the "Hello World" program is the first in any language learning endeavour.

copying the source from

http://revmedia.runrev.com/revWeb-samples/hello-world/

on mouseUp

answer "Hello World"

end mouseUp

What does it do?

It creates a popup dialog with the text "Hello World" everytime you depress any mouse button.

How to enter the code:

1. Menu File then New Mainstack and a window appears

2. From tools toolbar select the edit pointer tool then right click on the window from 2 and select edit stack script and paste the source code above in the new window that appears and then close this window.

3. Select Run browse tool and click on the window when you depress any mouse button a popup appears saying "Hello World".

4. If you like you may go to file menu again and save  this little program as hello.

A really nice way to start learning.

Runtime Revolution

I recently discovered a very powerful application development environment called revolution. Since  there is no time available to invest in learning one of the traditional programming languages I decided to start studying this one because it utilizes an English-like language that is easy to learn even more easier than BASIC. What I am interested in is text processing, databases and simple calculations. From a first look at the user manual seems that Rev provides all of these. As I study to learn the parts of the language that are useful to me, I will use this blog to post source code and  my observations.