Okay, so this is frustrating.

I'm trying to share the joy of ARev development with a new co-worker, and thought I'd use the TUTORIAL program to get him started. Yes, it's kind of stilted but it still covers the basics.

However, I'm having some issues with it. The tutorial process starts up just fine, and I select the first lesson "Prototyping the application". I can work through the prompts to get Paint up and running and can usually get the first prompt or two defined.

However, at some point the macro playback completely freaks out and instead of controlling what the user is entering, the macro text gets entered directly on the form. At this point the tutorial workflow completely breaks down.

I've tried several of the other lessons and they work with varying degrees of success. The biggest issue seems to be script playback while in Paint. I don't know if this is a version conflict or not.

We are running Ceridian's HR-1 on Arev 3.02. To be honest I don't know if it came with TUTORIAL or if it's something I added later.

Also, it does not seem to matter if I run this off the network under Win98 (our usual setup) or if I run it in non-networking mode on my local box.

If anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate it.

Matt

I can't say that I've tried the tutorial past ARev 2.0x.

It is possible that it is an older version that never got upgraded.

And then again it would surprise me if standard ARev stuff like the tutorial doesn't run right under HR-1. The HR-1 ARev is anything but standard. Alex Glyzser and his crew made a lot of changes under the hood. For instance if you had v2.03 and did a "WHO" it would say version 2.03 - yet there was not !INDEXING file, a feature that ARev users had to wait for 2.1 for. Index lookups using the BEGINNING/ENDING/CONTAINING keywords resolve much faster than ARev also.

Yeah, I learned on 3.12, so moving "back" to 3.02 was interesting, and then there's all the non-standard stuff.

I mean, not having a FieldCount() function about drove me crazy, so I wrote my own :)

Is the TUTOR application available for download from anywhere? I checked and most of my REV*.* files are from 1995/1999.

There was a problem with the tutor that was fixed with 3.12. I can't remember what it was though. I think it had something to do with CATALYST. I'm struggling to remember. Either way, changes to mouse, paint and input.char caused some real problems with the tutor application from 3.0 through 3.111.

I don't really have any suggestions other than running one in 3.12 or 2.12.

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Well, if it had to do with CATALYST then that would explain the issues I'm seeing.

Oh well, guess I get to dust of my "instructor's hat" and pass on all my bad coding habits :)

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