Sample Projects

These tutorials show you how to use the sample projects, and how to take them apart to understand how they work or copy portions of them for use in your own applications.

We recommend you explore the introductory tutorials so you have a basic understanding of how Revolution works before you start on the sample projects.
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 Open Anything - Display text from any file.
Open Anything, a simple utility, opens any file on disk and displays the text portion of the file. You can edit the text and save it out to a text file. (2:32)
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 Preferences Pane - Saving to a stack or text file.
Preferences Pane is a simple Preferences window with two panes. Two versions of the sample are provided: one which saves to a stack file, and another which saves to a delimited text file. (2:48)
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 Internet Image Importer - Importing all the images from a web page.
Internet Image Importer is a simple script which allows you to load the images from a webpage. (1:04)
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 Internet Chat - Creating a custom protocol using sockets.
The Internet Chat application is a simple client and server application that allows you to do live Internet chat. It comes in two parts. The Chat Client stack contains the scripts for the client, and would be distributed to each person on the network. The Chat Server stack contains the scripts for the chat server. (2:53)
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 Bouncy - Just for Fun!
Bouncy is a stack that bounces an image across your desktop. (0:59)
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 Simple Calculator - Using Logic
This Video Tutorial shows you how to use this Sample Project, and how to take it apart to understand how it works or copy portions of it for use in your own applications. (1:48)
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 Contact Manager - A Simple Card Based Database.
Contact Manager is a very simple application that allows you to enter a note and date to call someone. It uses cards to store each record, and a script at the start of the stack updates the summary field. (2:33)
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 Multiple Choice Questionnaire - For Online Learning.
The Multiple Choice Questionnaire allows you to create your own multiple choice quiz or test. This application is capable of saving its results to a file or uploading them to an ftp server. The application comes in two parts, the quiz stacks themselves, and an editor stack. The editor stack demonstrates how you can easily create one application which modifies another. It also shows how to create your own custom (or “virtual”) object properties. (4:04)
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 Kiosk - Simple MySQL Front End.
The Kiosk application is a very simple front end to a MySQL database. Unlike the other sample projects, this application did not require any scripting. Instead, the connection to the database was created using the point and click Database Query Builder. (1:47)
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 Video Capture - A custom video capture application.
The Video Capture application captures video from a camera plugged into the computer. It can capture using either QuickTime or Video For Windows. (Please note that video capture is not currently supported on Linux and Unix systems.) (1:51)
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