Brian Gaines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Joe made a point in some other mail that REAL might support RBScript
better if it had more users, and that some RBScript evangelism with
examples of use might promote it more. Certainly anyone who reads the
REAL email lists and the frequent complaints about the state of
RBScript would be more likely to avoid it than to embrace it!
RBScript is an incredibly powerful feature of REALbasic. One can make
one's applications as open-architecture as one wishes and allow one's
users to extend applications to address their needs.
Absolutely. Our application, AstroPlanner
<http://www.ilangainc.com/astroplanner/>
uses RBScripting extensively to extend the application. The scripting
manual alone runs to 120 pages, most of it reference. A number of
users are discovering that they can make the app do what they want
without demanding new features, etc. I can whip up a script in a few
minutes to satisfy a user.
Bottom line: it's an application used by several thousand users, and
which uses RBScript extensively.
However, a number of users have complained that debugging is tricky
(for example, an unhandled exception crashes the entire app without
explanation). I'm also forced to stick with RB5.5.5, since new
RBScripting bugs have been introduced since then.
As an aside, at least one user that I know of has purchased
REALbasic, and is using it. So RBScript might even help RS indirectly.
Anyway, my bleating from a few days ago has obviously struck several
nerves, and the number of watchers of several RBScript-related bug
reports has climbed to the point where RS might take notice.
Paul Rodman
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