"opus.species" wrote:
>
> Pierre Sahores wrote :
>
> >Sorry friends ! Are we the lonely ones - with you, Andu - to get no
> >trouble with the MC GUI ?
>
> Add me to both lists :
>
> - as a developper of cd-rom i don't mind to use the MC GUI as it is, and i
> did not use anymore Director, Supercard, OMO or Toolbook for more than 18
> month. MetaTalk is much cleaver and much more powerfull. But also the
> metacard .exe are thin and fast ; metacard is by far the best authoring
> system for a delivery on cd-rom (whe should prepair a list of awards : best
> xtalk langage, best support, best cross-platform tool, best server side
> internet tool, best cdrom authoring package ...)
>
> - but as a professor, i can not even think of using Metacard with my
> students :-(( Not only because the interface is u(nix)gly, but also because
> the help stacks are too cryptically designed (not always consistant, not
> enough examples, not sample code to copy and paste, no fulltext search
> facility, no FAQ...). I can not say to my students "go and browse through
> the MC list..."
I agree :-(
>
> I cannot blame Metacard corp if they prefer prepair MC 2.4 for "experienced
> developpers" (like me :-)) than prepair a cleaner GUI for new developpers
> like my students :-( ... even if i agree with Richard Gaskin when he wrote :
>
> >A $10k facelift to MC would save more than $100k in sales.
Probably, yes.
>
> Actually for the "more than $100k in sales", i dont know. But i agree with
> the "$10k facelift" ; if Metacard want to win more new users, it only needs
> an clean and easy GUI (� la Hypercard), not an heavy, slow and bugged one (�
> la Supercard 3).
>
> Claude
>
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Regards, Pierre Sahores
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