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Introducing Data Tree
A Tree Control for Rev Developers Arrives in revSelect

I love Rev. If you're reading this article, it's highly likely that you love it too! Developing software with it is an absolute cinch. You're given the basic building blocks: buttons, fields, graphics and the like, and with some easy to write code to stitch it all together away you go!

Trouble is, what if you need more powerful controls? A few versions ago, we were given the Data Grid, which has solved one set of problems but what if you need a tree control? Well, today it gives me great pleasure to announce that my Data Tree library has been accepted into RevSelect and a licence is available to buy for $45.00.

In this article, we'll take a brief look at Data Tree and then see how I've used it to quickly knock together an XML viewer. Don't worry if this example is on the advanced side of things. The manual contains a simple step-by-step guide to creating trees and you can pick apart the demo stack to discover yet more methods getting started.

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Rev 4.5 Progress

Rev 4.5 dp3 became available for download on Tuesday. If you have a current revEnterprise license you can download it via "check for updates" under your Help menu, or from the links given on the improve-rev discussion list. But before you do, perhaps you might find this article useful reading.

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Build for iPhone

Follow along with this lesson to learn how to use the Mobile Plugin stack provided as part of the revMobile pre-alpha to create, test and deploy an iPhone application. Step by step instructions with screenshots and code snippets from our lessons site.

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Spice or Vanilla?

A thoughtful discussion of the relative merits of tRev vs the built in script editor in Rev. Which would you prefer?

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