I was one of the last HyperCard holdouts probably. I kept thinking
Apple would see the light or somebody else would come up with a
product that was as good and compatible. I tried SuperCard; it looks
a lot like HyperCard but there were a lot of differences in the way
certain stuff worked. I tried Revolution, but it was sufficiently
different to not feel very good, and too expensive at the time I
tried it to go on with it. That brings me to REALbasic. I gave it
several tries early on and it didn't feel too good. While you could
build the interface easily, the underlying programming required much
more work than HyperCard; and there were (and still are) things that
you could do so very easily with HyperCard and REALbasic either
can't do them, or they require much, much more coding. I would jump
back to a souped-up, colorful HyperCard in an instant if it ever came
back. I doubt the supposed FreeCards and the like will be available
before my 120th birthday, if ever. I made a somwhat painful jump to
REALbasic when OSX came out. Developing with HyperCard in Classic to
me was like giving oxygen to a dead man and there never was a PL/I
that did much on MacOS :-). C looks more like hierglyphics to my logic.
For now, I've a lot of time invested in REALbasic programming, and I
have customers that buy my software and depend on me. The
realSQLdatabase is really great, stable and a gem. Despite REAL
breaking the listbox bindings too often to be comfortable, I keep
using REALbasic. I just abandoned the temptation to use the bindings.
Sure, they are easy, but when REAL breaks something, you have to wait
at least three months to get it fixed or spend days to program around
their bugs. That is most irking, and for the last couple of months,
made me want to shove REALbasic to some dark place on my hard drive.
Regards,
Jeffrey
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