Here is a teaser that talks about our upcoming webinar course on Professional Application Development With Revolution. Tomorrow (July 31st) is the last day for the Early Bird discount. We would love to see you there.
Lately I’ve been working with a lot of web services in ScreenSteps. ScreenSteps integrates with services like WordPress, TypePad, Confluence, MindTouch and ScreenSteps Live. When I sat down to write libraries for each of these integrations I wrestled with how I wanted to handle error reporting. Each handler that retrieved data from a web service [...]
Revolution is an incredible cross-platform development tool for quickly creating programs that run on Mac, Windows and Linux. But creating a professional, polished application that is ready for release still requires a great deal of know-how and expertise. Blue Mango Learning Systems, author of the free and open-source GLX Application Framework, is pleased to announce [...]
Revolution is an incredible cross-platform development tool for quickly creating programs that run multiple platforms. But creating an application with Revolution still requires that the developer create their own libraries to perform many common application tasks. The GLX Application Framework provides the underlying infrastructure you need for creating professional-grade applications on Mac and Windows. This [...]
In my applications I like to verify that all stack files exist on disk when the application launches. If any of the required stack files are missing then I alert the user and quit the application. Most developers are familiar with using go [invisible] stack "/path/to/stack" to load a stack file into memory. But ‘go [...]
The release of version 1.1 of the GLX Application Framework is just around the corner and it has a number of new features and enhancements that take the grunt work out of application development. This version of the framework will go even further in helping you be more productive and in creating more polished applications. [...]
Revolution has made it relatively straightforward to work with the included externals like revDB, revXML and revZIP. The externals are automatically available to your scripts when you launch the IDE and the standalone builder allows you to include them when building a standalone. Wouldn’t it be nice if your custom external behaved just like a [...]
I often include Revolution code snippets in lessons that I create. Those lessons are most often delivered in HTML or PDF. In order to speed up the process of converting code to the appropriate format I created a plugin called “Script Format Helper” that does the following: Formats the selected text in the script editor [...]
