In my view , if adopting Cocoa support helps RB become more reliable and gives RB compiled apps a look/feel and behavour consistent with modern Cocoa apps then that's a good thing - PROVIDED - that this can be done mostly within a RB specific API and "wrapper" framework that behaves in as similar fashion across all 3 platforms. Lets not forget that these days the main USP for RB is CROSS PLATFORM - ie write once, run "3-where". Although there will always have to be some support for differentiating between platforms and to take benefit where appropriate ( say drawers in OSX ), wherever possible this should be replicated across all environments. I don't really want to see RB become an IDE where basically we end up using the same language for the three platforms, but effectively end up coding for the separate APIs. So I do hope when the release their Cocoa baby, that RS implement Cocoa in a "hidden" way. I really don't want to be over- aware of the fact that I am coding to a cocoa API in RB. I want to code to the RB API. The best solution would be for RB to go one step further and actually end up with a framweork that can be a "superset" of Cocoa or vista, as much as possible!! ( maybe unrealistic = but for a cross platform tool that is what one really wants )
On 10/1/07 18:00, "Norman Palardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 09, 2007, at 4:28 PM, Seth Willits wrote: > >> >> Just to clarify two things: >> >> First, REALbasic does do two things easier than Cocoa: The first is >> sockets (BSD sockets aren't exactly fun to use once you've used >> REALbasic's) and database access. Being able to connect to half a >> dozen kinds of databases with the same API is ridiculously easy and >> that I do wish I had in Cocoa (particularly for a certain app I'm >> about to start writing...) > > CoreData > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives of this list here: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
