On Saturday, December 6, 2003, at 01:35 PM, grimmwerks wrote:
So I've started thinking about realbasic, especially with the monkeybread
plugins (4400 different cross platform calls to things like scanners,
cameras, cd burning, etc)...
Personally I'd prefer to see director step up since it's been around longer,
but realbasic has been growing leaps in bounds in a short time.
I'd like to hear what other director dev people think about realbasic --
shortcomings, where it works, etc.
There's been a discussion about this on Direct-L.
In a nutshell -
My company supplements our coding efforts with RB (2 pro licenses and a bunch of plug ins.) It is nowhere near as fast or elegant to develop in as Director, but offers some capabilities that are hard to simulate. With the MBS plugs, it can do a lot - but really should only be used for stuff which looks OS native... like applications. It is weaker in multimedia and media support. Nice database connectivity, good speed of processing, and decently x-plat. (Director requires less OS specific tweaking though.) No internet browser delivery.
Unless you primarily develop applications, you can really only add RB, not use it as a suitable Director replacement. To try making "Director style" apps in RB, Director will blow your doors off. We use it to develop internal utilities, and some client projects that need to look and work like "real applications" where OSControls xtra is not quite enough.
Nice tool, I'm glad we have it in the toolbox. Not as broadly capable as Director (at least in the scope of projects we do at my shop.)
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Troy
RPSystems, Ltd.
http://www.rpsystems.net
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