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Issue 96 | July 7th 2010 Contact the Editor | How to Contribute
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ChartMaker joins revSelect
Another fine addon brings more functionality to your programming

Whether you need a quick chart for a web site, presentation or document, or full programmatic control within your software, ChartMaker from The Flexible Learning Company may be a solution. And it's free to try for 30 days from the RevSelect store.

Released as a library for Rev with example playground stacks at 3 levels of complexity to investigate, you also get a fully featured point and click Utility Wizard. The utility not only builds charts for you, but can also give you the required syntax so you can do it yourself; can instantly change the display by tweaking the checkbox options; can archive charts and chart definitions; and can even list thumbnails for you to restore old charts. All in all a fairly impressive set of features...

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Build dynamic webpages with revIgniter

Learn how to use this free toolkit to build web applications using revTalk with RevServer or with the On-Rev server engine. This step by step tutorial takes you through creating a simple chat program using the revIgniter libraries.

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FusionCharts Import->Export

This article shows how to create a Rev application that uses the SpecialFolders Path and the CustomProperties functions to import/export FusionCharts files. In this article I’ll show how this file was created to support Mac and Win. The phrase “Temporary Path, Permanent Solution" describes the technique for managing FusionCharts with a minimal footprint on your system.

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Solve your 8-Puzzle Game

This lesson describes how to make the computer solve the 8-Puzzle for you, using a commonly applied Artificial Intelligence search technique. A top level discussion of the key algorithm is given, and code samples are provided.

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