Lessons
| Quickly Edit a Palette Stack in the IDE | Posted: 27 Jun 12:57 |
| By: Trevor DeVore |
When working in the IDE with the pointer tool you cannot select controls in stacks that have a mode of 3 or 4 (modeless or palette). Learn how to quickly toggle the mode to 1 (toplevel) without having to remember the name of the stack.
| Write A Command That Sets 'the result' And 'it' | Posted: 18 Apr 08:15 |
| By: Trevor DeVore |
Certain Revolution commands, such as 'answer', will set both it and the result:
* it is set to the data returned from the command
* the result contains status such as an error message or the button clicked on.
While it is not readily apparent how to do this when writing you...
| Alternating Line Colors in a List Field | Posted: 15 Apr 11:08 |
| By: Trevor DeVore |
This lesson will demonstrate how to create alternating line colors in a Revolution list field. This technique requires version 2.8.1 or later of Revolution.
| Dropping System Folders on Fields | Posted: 03 Mar 23:45 |
| By: Trevor DeVore |
This lesson demonstrates how to allow a user to drop a system folder onto a field. The folder path is then displayed in the field.
| Adding a Windows Vista Manifest To a Revolution Executable | Posted: 27 Feb 20:54 |
| By: Trevor DeVore |
In Windows Vista an .exe file can have a manifest embedded in it that tells Windows the application should run with administrator privileges. When the user launches the .exe Vista will prompt the user for a username and password. Your application can then write to protected directories. </p...
| Running Revolution as CGI on Debian Linux | Posted: 22 Feb 15:40 |
| By: Trevor DeVore |
Revolution is a great development tool for desktop applications. But it can also be run as a CGI on your server which means you can quickly write scripts for use on the web using the syntax you know and love.
This tutorial shows the steps I went through to install the Revolution Linux ...
| Getting Expected Results When Setting clipboardData["html"] | Posted: 08 Feb 22:11 |
| By: Trevor DeVore |
When setting clipboardData["html"] the textFont of the templateField is used (or the home stack if the textFont is empty). This has implications for OS X applications where Lucida Grande is normally the default font. Lucida Grande does not have an italics style so italics wil...
| Create an ANSI Font Option Menu | Posted: 18 Jan 18:28 |
| By: Trevor DeVore |
| Creating a Color Picker Swatch | Posted: 18 Jan 17:04 |
| By: Trevor DeVore |
Learn how to make a color picker swatch.
| Creating a Toolbar Button | Posted: 18 Jan 13:36 |
| By: Trevor DeVore |
Learn how to create a toolbar button that has an icon with text appearing below it.
| Creating a Password Field | Posted: 11 Jan 00:11 |
| By: Trevor DeVore |
Learn how to create a password entry field using a a custom font and revFontLoad. You can download the PasswordEntry.ttf font <a href="http://www.bluemangolearning.com/developer/revolution/downloads/passwordentry.zip">here</a>.