There comes a point where its less overhead to just make OS timer for all of the platforms than to try to reuse the REALbasic object which in this case is Timer.
This is serious flaw of a more than 10 year old product, especially given that all the calls are there, their just not exposed. Things like hooking up a event, the call is there and works, it would make plugins a lot more rich and enable them to reuse more realbasic functionality. After all the poor reusability and just the fact that its damn hard to make UI plugins for REALbasic is part of the problem why you don't see advanced controls getting born like you see for example in .NET. Even simple things like the + operator for a string, its there in the framework and works with unsanctioned ways. Why on earth is it not added ? Do you have any idea how much work its to + together 2 REALstrings using only C++ ? taking into account all the encodings and all that ? I could go on and on like this. On 12.7.2010, at 19:40, Norman Palardy wrote: > > On 12-Jul-10, at 1:13 PM, Björn Eiríksson wrote: > >> Obviously a timer subclass is no solution since, one would not want to >> expose to >> REALbasic a internal class that has no meaning to the REALbasic developer. > > In RB itself you can mark it private in such a way that the developer never > sees it (trust me we have such things in the framework which is partially > written in RB) > I'm assuming you could do the same in a plugin - but I'm certainly not expert > enough in writing plugins any more to know for sure > >> Making a whole subclass in a plugin like that would seriously defeat the >> purpose of using the REALbasic framework. > > Not really since there are only a few sanctioned ways of doing things whether > you're a plugin or pure RB code > > > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> -- ______________________________________________________________________ Björn Eiríksson [email protected] Einhugur Software http://www.einhugur.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ Einhugur Software has sold its products in 57 countries world wide. ______________________________________________________________________ For support: [email protected] To post on the maillist: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
