Resources Picker Plugin
New Sophisticated Resources Picker Plugin for Revolution from So Smart Software
July 14th, 2005 - So Smart Software (http://www.sosmartsoftware.com/) today announces the availability of Resources Picker, a new plugin for the Revolution family of software development tools (www.runrev.com).
Resources Pickers lets users search and retrieve information about
Revolution from the built-in documentation, stacks, mailing lists and
web sites. The plugin comes with a help stack in French and English and
is available for Mac OS 9/10 and Windows XP.
"Revolution
is a very powerful development environment and the user community is
growing at an amazing rate. Finding information which is scattered
across various sources is often difficult. Resources picker makes it
simple by gathering relevant sources of information and letting people
search within them with just one mouse click." said Eric Chatonet of So Smart Software.
Resources Picker searches for information from four main sources:
- Contextual and intelligent search through four aspects of the Revolution documentation: FAQ, dictionary, topics section and cookbook recipes.
- Public Revolution related mailing lists by utilising the users web browser and a choice of three main search engines (Google, Gmane and Mail Archive). Support is also provided for direct additional links to Google Advanced Search, Gmane by threads and Mail Archive by threads or by date. Automated preparation of posts to the use-Revolution or Education lists.
- Revolution related relevant web resources: websites, stacks and files etc. through a local customizable database, an index of the contents of Rev Online and an index of the contents of RevNet.
- An "All the Web" search from within the IDE with a choice of three engines: Google, Yahoo or MSN.
This
announcement brings to fourteen the number of free Revolution plugins
available from So Smart Software. For further details, screenshots and
downloads, please visit http://www.sosmartsoftware.com/
About So Smart Software
Located in Paris, France, So Smart Software is an outstanding French
team of ergonomists, computer artists and programmers grouped around
Eric Chatonet. With over twenty years of experience in Xtalk software
and interactive media development, they create specialized
built-to-order applications in various fields: management, multimedia,
Internet, etc, that combine an incomparable design, exemplary
ergonomics, rapid product development and 100% reliability on Windows,
MacOS or Linux platforms.