On Nov 14, 2006, at 3:51 PM, realbasic-nug-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Subject: Re: Windows StyleRunCount, getting really frustrated
From: Brendan Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:00:51 -0600
Alfred Van Hoek wrote:
I find the distinction between your FTC and WordGuise rather
misleading. In addition, as far as I can possibly judge from the
demo you have put up, there isn't much a developer can do with
FTC, contrary to EditField or WordGuise. And WordGuise provides
formatted text, is an RTF control, you can set page width, line
indents and paragraph indents, and you can add pictures.
With all due respect, this comes across as sour grapes. All I am
pointing out is that the FTC and the EditField type controls are
fundamentally two different animals which serve different
purposes.
Brendan,
it is not sour grapes. I am ok with competing controls, whether they
are in the form of a plugin or rb-class. And FTC is competing with
WordGuise and EditField.
Saying there isn't much you can do with the FTC contrary to
EditField or WordGuise is an outright absurdity.
Then allow for a demo class, instead of a demo app. You need to let
your potential customers feel what FTC does, like we do with WordGuise.
I believe there
are several advantages FTC has over WordGuise in that I provide
source code, it is 100% REALbasic code, and has capabilities that
WordGuise does not provide. My control also provides the ability
to implement custom objects which far exceeds WordGuise. In fact I
was discussing yesterday with a customer how he could go about
implementing a table like in Microsoft Word. On top of that, I
provide source code since implementing such complicated controls
within your application requires specialization. If word processor
capabilities is what you need like Apple's Pages word processor,
then the FTC is the way to go.
Again, I have not the ability to check FTC, not sure thus if it is
true that FTC would far exceed WordGuise. I can't even say that
WordGuise is better than FTC. If it comes to little things, your demo
shows that double (or triple clicking) does not change the cursor to
an arrow, while WordGuise does this.
Alfred
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