Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Preston Shea
The efficiency of the PC (oops! er, Mac) is practically without precedent since the days of the first chipped-flint hand axe, so it is hard to get a handle on what something like Revolution is worth. It feels to me that it is worth at least as much as the modest computer on which I run it.

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Kay C Lan
From my reading of what Frank wrote it wasn't a case of charging on a delivery basis but allowing a cheaper entry to DreamCard, one that didn't allow delivery. ie for $20 you can have DreamCard but whatever you create can only run in your copy of DreamCard, if you want to deploy to other DreamCard

Re: Graphic Design Tools

2005-11-26 Thread Cubist
on Fri, 25 Nov 2005 Frank R wrote: Anyone know what tool they use for graphic design... I would certainly *hope* people are aware of what tool(s) they use... ...and if not, anyone have any good suggestions for inexpensive, easy graphic design tools? Me, I use Photoshop. Wonderful

RE: Near completion of Color Pattern Toolkit: IDE, engine, and font problems (part two)

2005-11-26 Thread MisterX
I thought it might be the issue. I stand corrected. Have you tried destroying the graphic stuff and recreating it? Doing garbage collection of sorts? Delete local arrays? cheers Xavier -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wilhelm Sanke

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Frank R
I didn't mean charging per-copy distribution fees. I completely agree those schemes are not well received. All I meant was: - 0 to develop inside the IDE, without the ability to deploy anything - X to deploy anything, where X is the same number whether you deploy 1 or a million

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Frank R
Kay - well said - and, yes, you were the only one who Got the pricing I was referring to with: ie for $20 you can have DreamCard but whatever you create can only run in your copy of DreamCard, if you want to deploy to other DreamCard users you'll need the $99 version Kay C Lan

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Alex Tweedly
David Coker wrote: Revolution already *is* that later version with the advanced features. ;) I think most of the users consider Revolution to be Enterprise quality and is up to virtually any task that you can throw in it's direction. I know I do. Quick research: DreamCard: United States

Re: Scope Problem on Standalones

2005-11-26 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I have an application that is comprised on a number of stacks. The top level stack is built into a Standalone and it calls other stacks (.rev files) via start using and go stack commands. When in the IDE the folder stucture is like this: BaseFolder/StartUp.rev -- just contains a splash

Re: Scope Problem on Standalones

2005-11-26 Thread David Burgun
David- Friday, November 25, 2005, 5:34:28 AM, you wrote: set itemDelimiter to :/ I'm surprised this works at all... -- As I said, It was just typeo, the real script compiles and works fine in the IDE. All the Best Dave ___ use-revolution

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread David Burgun
Before I start my complaint about pricing, let me at least say that I applaud the company for having a $99 price point for Dreamcard. It at least opens the doors for more people to explore this intriguing tool. On the other hand, the pricing needs to go even further. In my 20 years in the

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Thomas McCarthy
I'm a high school teacher and support my family single-income-style. I pay for my software/hardware out of pocket [not even tax credit.] I'm also the world's cheapest man; to wit we have had marital difficulties because I will not let love stand in the way of conserving cash. The background

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Judy Perry
Oh, Happy Day! Judy On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Ken Ray wrote: This was the same philosophy espoused by Scott Raney, when he was selling MetaCard for $999 and nothing else... of course, that was until RunRev picked it up... :-) ___ use-revolution

Where do I put icons?

2005-11-26 Thread Preston Shea
I've got a bunch of 64 x 64 icons (myIcon.ico) that I need in a project. Where to I put them so they are accessible like the RR standard icons? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Where do I put icons?

2005-11-26 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Preston, I've got a bunch of 64 x 64 icons (myIcon.ico) that I need in a project. Where to I put them so they are accessible like the RR standard icons? sorry, but Rev does not support the ICO format. You will have to convert them to GIF, PNG or JPG format to be able to use them. The

The Old Chestnut - Again

2005-11-26 Thread Mathewson
So, at least part of my Beef about the end of the 'FREE' 10-lines-of-code may be partly justified . . . see Frank R's points/moans. I also understand the arguments put forward by Richard Gaskin and Co. I also know that working with the old RR 2 'Free' version can get extremely frustrating - and

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 26, 2005, at 2:12 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Personally, I think Rev is priced too low. Sh... don't talk that too loud, I am trying to sum some money to buy a new license and pounds are expensive ;-) Cheers andre ___ use-revolution

Re: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

2005-11-26 Thread Todd Higgins
Excellent suggestions Sarah. Your right, I need to start simple and work toward the complex. Between reading about all of the exciting stuff people are doing with Rev and my own overactive imaginations its difficult to buckle down and start with Hello World : ) Thanks Todd -- Todd

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Dennis Brown
I am one of those free HC to paid HC to paid SC crossgrade to paid Rev enterprise crossgrade to paid Studio downgrade to paid DC to paid DC upgrade. My gosh, I have owned one of every license! Personal circumstances kept me from ever using the first Enterprise license, and I would never

Re: This is what REALLY SUCKS about whingeing

2005-11-26 Thread Roger . E . Eller
On 11/24/2005 at 05:04 PM, Thomas McGrath III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This definitely sounds like a user error. If you have more than one menu group it will create confusion. If the group fgttryiolk is in the place menu then it was because you 'the user' created it first, Rev certainly did

Re: This is what REALLY SUCKS about whingeing

2005-11-26 Thread Marian Petrides
On Nov 26, 2005, at 10:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The MacOS is a cool and wonderful thing, but there is a certain quirkiness that often is simply overlooked by its many FANaticS (RunRev Team included). ;-) I resemble that remark ;-))) M Just lightening things up a bit, lest anyone

Player use

2005-11-26 Thread Frank R
Ok, why can I play a MIDI file using a player copied to a window, but I can't play a MIDI file using the play command. Using the play command, I get a nice screech, leading me to believe it is interpreting the MIDI file as an audio file of some form. ?

Small Print Problem

2005-11-26 Thread Robert Presender
Having a small problem with my print script shown below. Will appreciate any help. Using a scrolling window stack. Rev 2.5.1, OS 10.3.9, Paper size 8.5x11 The top 232 pixels of the card contains numerous flds ,etc followed by fld Listfield. Fld Listfield can contain up to 47 lines for one

Re: Player use

2005-11-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Frank R wrote: Ok, why can I play a MIDI file using a player copied to a window, but I can't play a MIDI file using the play command. Using the play command, I get a nice screech, leading me to believe it is interpreting the MIDI file as an audio file of some form. If the player is

Re: Player use

2005-11-26 Thread Frank R
Cuz: 1. It didn't make sense, and I'm trying to learn the product 2. The play command makes it easy to play a segment of the file, which I need to do 3. I need to start the player programmatically, and while I see messages to send to the player, I don't see a way to start it yet.

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Troy Rollins
On Nov 25, 2005, at 11:12 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: RealBASIC Standard $99 RealBASIC Pro $399 Macromedia Flash: $699 Macromedia Director: $1,199 (per platform) I decided a while back not to get involved with tool politics in this forum (it has caused ill-will in the

Re: Player use

2005-11-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Frank R wrote: Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the player is working for you why not use that? 1. It didn't make sense, and I'm trying to learn the product The play command is an old interface to the system's video and audio playback. While not officially depricated, it

Re: Player use

2005-11-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
Frank R wrote: Ok, why can I play a MIDI file using a player copied to a window, but I can't play a MIDI file using the play command. Using the play command, I get a nice screech, leading me to believe it is interpreting the MIDI file as an audio file of some form. Right. Player objects

Re: This is what REALLY SUCKS about whingeing

2005-11-26 Thread Jeffrey Reynolds
hmm, well i havnt seen this flavor of oddness, but the few weird 'how did that happen???' things with groups have all happened on the Windows side for me and I do most of my development on the Mac side. Since this is usually after a lot of development time, its hard to say exactly what caused

Re: Question on Radio Buttons

2005-11-26 Thread Fred Giannetto
Hello Phil Davis, I do not have access to it now but two more questions. The question names are still active when all the buttons are set up as a group (I imagine I must have to set then up before they are a group)? Why doesn't answer gQuestion1 return a value when used in a button?

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Dan Shafer
Well-said, Preston! I'm adding this to my quotation list for my positive reminders of why I do what I do. On Nov 26, 2005, at 12:04 AM, Preston Shea wrote: A thousand bucks to set up your own contracting business? You gotta be kidding! ~~ Dan

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Dan Shafer
I honestly do not believe that a single small company -- and RunRev is small -- can do a great job of serving both the professional programming market and the hobbyist/Inventive User market. The needs, expectations, demands, support requirements, feature sets, documentation needs, training

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Dan Shafer
Frank. Can you give us an example or two of where this pricing is common among development tools? I see feature-crippled and time-limited evaluation licensing all the time, but I can't honestly think of a single development tool that has a free learning edition that you upgrade to so

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Dan Shafer
Frank... Supplementing my last post with a response to this On Nov 26, 2005, at 2:41 AM, Frank R wrote: ie for $20 you can have DreamCard but whatever you create can only run in your copy of DreamCard, if you want to deploy to other DreamCard users you'll need the $99 version This

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Dan Shafer
There's no such thing as bug-free software. And the company has recently begun doing a fantastic job of squashing bugs, so they get the message that they need to be more bug-free. On Nov 26, 2005, at 4:03 AM, David Burgun wrote: Before they do that they need to get all the bugs out of it,

Re: The Old Chestnut - Again

2005-11-26 Thread Dan Shafer
As someone who has been playing in the software universe for far, far too long, I can tell you that: (a) your basic idea is attractive and workable (b) it is an economic disaster for the publisher Why? Because of something called SKUs. That stands for Stock Keeping Unit and it's the number

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread David Bovill
On 26 Nov 2005, at 21:01, Dan Shafer wrote: I've been racking my brain the last 48 hours and I cannot come up with a single development tool company that has succeeded at doing this since Borland's very early days. I'd be delighted if someone could point me to a real exception to that

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Dan Shafer
Dennis A well-thought-out and appreciated post. But, as with others who have offered this viewpoint, I am compelled to ask you to provide even one example of a development tool company following the strategy you describe below that you say is being used by the most successful

Re: This is what REALLY SUCKS about whingeing

2005-11-26 Thread Dan Shafer
Roger Interestingly, I have *never* encounhtered most of the anomalies mentioned in this thread and I program in Rev exclusively on OS X. Yeah, I'm a MacBigot and I may just be blissfully unaware of these issues. But I've written hundreds of small code snippets for books and articles

Re: The Old Chestnut - Again

2005-11-26 Thread David Bovill
On 26 Nov 2005, at 21:14, Dan Shafer wrote: As someone who has been playing in the software universe for far, far too long, I can tell you that: (a) your basic idea is attractive and workable (b) it is an economic disaster for the publisher Why? Because of something called SKUs. That stands

Re: The Old Chestnut - Again

2005-11-26 Thread Dan Shafer
David... Good response. I agree that new markets can turn into wonderful exceptions. On Nov 26, 2005, at 12:34 PM, David Bovill wrote: No-one has managed to do this with software components yet. My view is that due to the technology and community involved in the Revolution environment -

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Mark Smith
Dan, this is an innocent question, not intended to provoke or contradict, but where do you think Rev is currently falling down with regard to either pro developers or inventive users? As a hobbyist/inventive user (an excellent phrase, btw), I feel very well served by Rev, though perhaps

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Shafer wrote: Not only can I not think of a single *development tool* company following the strategy of trying to serve two markets with a single product, I can't even come up with a single successful software company doing that. Agreed 100%. If a tool has any potential to appeal to pros,

Re: The Old Chestnut - Again

2005-11-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Shafer wrote: On Nov 26, 2005, at 12:34 PM, David Bovill wrote: No-one has managed to do this with software components yet. My view is that due to the technology and community involved in the Revolution environment - RunRev are uniquely placed to pull such a trick off. Whether anyone

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread David Bovill
On 26 Nov 2005, at 22:03, Mark Smith wrote: Dan, this is an innocent question, not intended to provoke or contradict, but where do you think Rev is currently falling down with regard to either pro developers or inventive users? Hard one to answer as RunRev do do a VERY good job at trying

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
David Bovill wrote: 1) Lack of the large number of professional grade commercial plugins or open source libraries available compared to other platforms (this seems to be changing slowly). They're out there, just poorly cataloged. RunRev currently only lists components they resell, and

Re: The Old Chestnut - Again

2005-11-26 Thread David Bovill
On 26 Nov 2005, at 22:02, Dan Shafer wrote: I have given up on this dream. In the 70's and 80's, several companies tried -- with true object-oriented platforms such as Smalltalk and Java -- to create viable third-party marketplaces for software components, to no avail. I know what you

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
David Bovill wrote: What I would love to see is RunRev let go substantially of the professional coders end of the market, by adopting an innovative open content strategy Letting go of users able and willing to pay top dollar to pursue a customer self-qualified as less willing to pay seems

Re: This is what REALLY SUCKS about whingeing

2005-11-26 Thread Thomas McGrath III
I agree Dan... I have never had any of these issues come up for me. Tom On Nov 26, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: Roger Interestingly, I have *never* encounhtered most of the anomalies mentioned in this thread and I program in Rev exclusively on OS X. Yeah, I'm a MacBigot and I

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread David Bovill
On 26 Nov 2005, at 22:18, Richard Gaskin wrote: David Bovill wrote: 1) Lack of the large number of professional grade commercial plugins or open source libraries available compared to other platforms (this seems to be changing slowly). They're out there, just poorly cataloged.

Re: This is what REALLY SUCKS about whingeing

2005-11-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jeffrey Reynolds wrote: I think some of this is summed up by some stuff just does happen, whether its a bug, file corruption or a user goof or just doing things in such an order that a strange event happens Fortunately you can rule out file corruption for 99% of the cases where it's

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
David Bovill wrote: On 26 Nov 2005, at 22:18, Richard Gaskin wrote: David Bovill wrote: 1) Lack of the large number of professional grade commercial plugins or open source libraries available compared to other platforms (this seems to be changing slowly). They're out there, just

Kudos to Jacque for the Script Conferences

2005-11-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
This morning was the last of 16 installments of the Scripting Conferences organized by Jacque Gay with the help of RunRev and more than a dozen scripting experts (and one slacker who did the session on the Message Hierarchy g). I can only imagine how much work it takes to pull off a project

Graphic Design Tools

2005-11-26 Thread Mathewson
Us cheap-jacks use GIMP: takes a while to get used to - but it is worth the work; and, fac it, the price is fantastic! I use GIMP on Mac OS X and Ubuntu Linux. GIMP is now available for MAC OS X without having to fool around with X11. sincerely, Richmond

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Michael Lew
For some time I have been toying with the idea that software should be sold on an income-weighted pricing scheme. If Richard can afford to pay more for Rev than Andre, it is in large part because he lives and earns in USA rather than Brazil. I have a couple of educational titles being sold

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Marty Knapp
Michael Lew wrote: For some time I have been toying with the idea that software should be sold on an income-weighted pricing scheme. If Richard can afford to pay more for Rev than Andre, it is in large part because he lives and earns in USA rather than Brazil. I have a couple of

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Alex Tweedly
Dan Shafer wrote: But, as with others who have offered this viewpoint, I am compelled to ask you to provide even one example of a development tool company following the strategy you describe below that you say is being used by the most successful companies today. And I'll expand on that

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Frank R
Borland. I can't swear they still do it to this day, but in recent years, they were doing Learning Editions that had lots of function, but you couldn't legally sell apps built with it. But, seeing how much dialog this generated, I really I wish I never started the thread. :)

Re: Graphic Design Tools

2005-11-26 Thread Charles Hartman
?? Not according to http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/ Where'd you see it? Charles Hartman On Nov 26, 2005, at 4:52 PM, Mathewson wrote: GIMP is now available for MAC OS X without having to fool around with X11. ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: Kudos to Jacque for the Script Conferences

2005-11-26 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 11/27/05, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This morning was the last of 16 installments of the Scripting Conferences organized by Jacque Gay with the help of RunRev and more than a dozen scripting experts (and one slacker who did the session on the Message Hierarchy g). I can only

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 25, 2005, at 8:04 PM, Michael Lew wrote: For some time I have been toying with the idea that software should be sold on an income-weighted pricing scheme. If Richard can afford to pay more for Rev than Andre, it is in large part because he lives and earns in USA rather than Brazil.

Use Ms Windows DLL

2005-11-26 Thread Alessandro Manotti
Hello, can someone help me to understand how to use a Windows DLL in RunRev? I cannot find the exact function to load a library and use the functions contained inside. :-( Thank you! ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Graphic Design Tools

2005-11-26 Thread Mathewson
I stated in a previous post that the current Mac OS X version of the GIMP does not require X11. I was wrong - and I am sorry if this gave anyone false hope! Notwithstanding this, I find the GIMP is an excellent graphic design tool. There was (2001) a native Cocoa version of GIMP - but it was

Re: Kudos to Jacque for the Script Conferences

2005-11-26 Thread Ken Ray
On 11/26/05 3:56 PM, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hats off and three cheers for Jacque and the contributors who put those together! Hear hear! It was a tremendous effort, and one that will benefit the community for years to come. I could not agree more. Thank you, Jacque,

There was an error connecting to the database

2005-11-26 Thread Bill
Does anyone know how to trouble shoot there was an error connecting to the database? I must have an automatic database connection somewhere that I don't use which is set-up wrong. Is there some kind of debugger message that I can set to turn on before everything else that would then put in the

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Michael Lew
On 27/11/2005, at 9:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a couple of educational titles being sold by my University that cost the same number of Australian dollars to Harvard as they do to universities in Africa. It doesn't seem fair. Perhaps software prices could be adjusted for the

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Dennis Brown
Dan, I know you qualified that as *development* tool, but I am just thinking *tool*. I don't look at Dream Card differently than Elements, or a low end CAD tool, or an outliner... All are consumer tools to me. I look at the utility of each to me to solve one type of problem. Being a

Re: Player use

2005-11-26 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently,Frank R wrote: Ok, why can I play a MIDI file using a player copied to a window, but I can't play a MIDI file using the play command. Using the play command, I get a nice screech, leading me to believe it is interpreting the MIDI file as an audio file of some form. I believe this

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Mark Wieder
Frank- Saturday, November 26, 2005, 2:40:06 PM, you wrote: Borland. I can't swear they still do it to this day, but in recent years, they were doing Learning Editions that had lots of function, but you couldn't legally sell apps built with it. Borland makes their 5.0 compiler freely

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Dennis Brown
On Nov 25, 2005, at 7:45 PM, Michael Lew wrote: At the moment, in your country and mine, the very wealthy pay very little tax. The top 1% earners in the US pay 34% of the taxes. The top 5% earners in the US pay 54% of the taxes. The top 50% earners in the US pay 97% of the taxes. If a

Re: Kudos to Jacque for the Script Conferences

2005-11-26 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Saturday, November 26, 2005, 1:56:10 PM, you wrote: Hats off and three cheers for Jacque and the contributors who put those together! Indeed. Jacque made it easy and fun to put together the conferences and provided the needed support along the way, in addition to archiving the

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Alejandro Tejada
on Sat, 26 Nov 2005 Dan Shafer wrote: Can you give us an example or two of where this pricing is common among development tools? I see feature-crippled and time-limited evaluation licensing all the time, but I can't honestly think of a single development tool that has a free learning

Re: Kudos to Jacque for the Script Conferences

2005-11-26 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Saturday, November 26, 2005, 1:56:10 PM, you wrote: This morning was the last of 16 installments of the Scripting Conferences organized by Jacque Gay with the help of RunRev and more than a dozen scripting experts (and one slacker who did the session on the Message Hierarchy g).

Re: Kudos to Jacque for the Script Conferences

2005-11-26 Thread Ken Ray
On 11/26/05 8:04 PM, Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard- Saturday, November 26, 2005, 1:56:10 PM, you wrote: This morning was the last of 16 installments of the Scripting Conferences organized by Jacque Gay with the help of RunRev and more than a dozen scripting experts (and

[OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail

2005-11-26 Thread Scott Rossi
Sorry to put this OT subject on the list but I'm hoping to solicit some of the more knowledgeable minds out there... Over the last week I've been inundated (yet again) with a tidal wave of bounced virus email messages. Of course I did not initiate any of the original messages -- I'm receiving

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Frank R
I wasn't referring to the free and old C++ available. Recently, they had Learning Editions of All their current development tools - Delphi, C++, Kylix, Java. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank- Saturday, November 26, 2005, 2:40:06 PM, you wrote: Borland. I can't swear they still do it to

Re: Kudos to Jacque for the Script Conferences

2005-11-26 Thread Mark Wieder
if messageChunk(someText, (?.)BODY(.+)/BODY, tStart, tEnd) then -- do something with the text here end if ...and, of course, that should be (?s) instead of (?.) -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Chipp Walters
I've been racking my brain the last 48 hours and I cannot come up with a single development tool company that has succeeded at doing this since Borland's very early days. I'd be delighted if someone could point me to a real exception to that rule, but absent that, I maintain my position.

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Chipp Walters
Richard Gaskin wrote: Gray Matter used to be that source, but they closed their doors many years ago, and today only Macromedia themselves can afford to be the central repository. Yeah, and the guy that ran Gray Matter was a crook. Took a bunch of money from us, and others. Turns out he's

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Judy Perry
It would be interesting to see some statistics from the company re: regular, paying customers and per license type. Perhaps the reality is counter-intuitive, but to what extent does Rev have an in with the big programming companies? It seems a conundrum. It would seem that the company has

Re: Graphic Design Tools

2005-11-26 Thread Judy Perry
Hmmm, but for really simple stuff (and the ability to translate from and two ~75 or more graphic file formats), there's nothing like the shareware program GraphicConverter: http://www.lemkesoft.de Love it... It's no Photoshop, but if you don't quite need Photoshop and, in any event, can't

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Mark Wieder
Frank- Saturday, November 26, 2005, 7:13:30 PM, you wrote: I wasn't referring to the free and old C++ available. Recently, they had Learning Editions of All their current development tools - Delphi, C++, Kylix, Java. Well, let's see... C++ Builder *30-day trial* version 6 is dated March

Re: Kudos to Jacque for the Script Conferences

2005-11-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richard Gaskin wrote: Thank you, Jacque, for having the vision and perseverence to pull that off, and the attention to detail to do it so well. What a kind thing to say, thanks so much. Ditto to Ken, Sarah, and Mark. It's true that the conferences were a major effort, but it was something I

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Dan Shafer
Good question, Mark. I'm not sure RunRev is falling down with respect to either market at this point because neither market has yet reched the point where its demands pose a problem. If you run through Bugzilla and this list I think you'd find that the vast majority of current users are

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Dan Shafer
Richard On Nov 26, 2005, at 1:06 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Pros need pro tools, and even hobbysts aspire to professional- looking results. A strategy that appeals to the high end will appeal to both. Ultimately, that's probably true. It's another way of saying Inventive Users

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Dan Shafer
You put your finger on it for me, Richard. I developed a detailed strategy for doing just this for another company (one that's no longer in business, not because they adopted my proposal) and have shared that with RunRev privately. There is a model I believe would work but it requires

Re: Kudos to Jacque for the Script Conferences

2005-11-26 Thread Dan Shafer
Here, here! Bravo! Well-done and badly needed. On Nov 26, 2005, at 1:56 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Thank you, Jacque, for having the vision and perseverence to pull that off, and the attention to detail to do it so well. ~~ Dan Shafer, Information

Re: [OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail

2005-11-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
Scott Rossi wrote: Over the last week I've been inundated (yet again) with a tidal wave of bounced virus email messages. Of course I did not initiate any of the original messages -- I'm receiving the bounced attempts and server notices as a result of virus propagation. I am routinely

Re: [OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail

2005-11-26 Thread Jerry Muelver
From: Scott Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail Over the last week I've been inundated (yet again) with a tidal wave of bounced virus email messages. Of course I did not initiate any of the original messages -- I'm receiving the bounced attempts and server

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Dan Shafer
That's a wonderful sentiment and a princely idea, Michael. But it would pose a serious administrative nightmare, particularly for software downloaded over the Net where you can't even know where the buyer resides! I have on more than one occasion made one of my products available to

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Dan Shafer
I agree, Alex, but they remain two separate products. Last I checked, you can't buy Elements and then get credit for an upgrade to Photoshop. In that way, they are similar to Apple's iMovie-Final Cut Pro and GarageBand-Logic Pro product mixes. On Nov 26, 2005, at 2:35 PM, Alex Tweedly

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Dan Shafer
Frank... On Nov 26, 2005, at 2:40 PM, Frank R wrote: But, seeing how much dialog this generated, I really I wish I never started the thread. :) Why? This kind of dialog is helpful and meaningful and for a lot of us who develop in Rev, this is the only place we can discuss such

RE: [OT] Handling Returned Virus Mail

2005-11-26 Thread MisterX
Scott And I thought mac users were not affected by window viruses ;) We get 80K viruses or spam hits a day at work... and the percentage of spam hits is alluring! Virii are not negligent either... Here's a few rules: Virii: Attachments, JavaScripts Not sent to you from address doesn't match

Re: Trying to change the subject ... :) ... Docs / Videos / Speed Of Thought book

2005-11-26 Thread Dan Shafer
As the author of the work in question, I'm probably not entirely objective, but my *hope* is that my book is a lot more like an O'Reilly title than it is a walkthrough of the IDE. In fact, it doesn't even include an IDE walk-through. OTOH, it is certainly not for the experienced

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Dan Shafer
Chipp I would have agreed until the last two revs. I am not personally acquainted with the situation, but several friends of mine who teach and study multimedia development at our local university have complained bitterly to me in the past year about how MM has made development in

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Dan Shafer
Really? Man, I knew that guy when he was at Macromedia. I can't remember his name off hand, but that's a startling story. Dan On Nov 26, 2005, at 8:26 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: Gray Matter used to be that source, but they closed their doors many years ago, and today

Re: Graphic Design Tools

2005-11-26 Thread Dan Shafer
Judy Wow. Would you believe this? I've owned a GraphicConverter license for years and I never knew it could create or modify graphics. All I've ever used it for is converting from one format to another! ::Sound of open palm smiting forehead:: I just opened it and I actually think I

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Shafer wrote: I maintain that without a significant improvement in the out-of-the- box experience for DC, the company will never reach broad enough appeal to reach critical mass among the Inventive User marketplace. One can hope. Another reason the readers of this list are glad I have

Re: Pricing / entry cost for this tool

2005-11-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Shafer wrote regarding Flash: I would have agreed until the last two revs. I am not personally acquainted with the situation, but several friends of mine who teach and study multimedia development at our local university have complained bitterly to me in the past year about how MM has

RE: Graphic Design Tools

2005-11-26 Thread MisterX
I too still cherish my Lemke CD - I should frame it! Best shareware out there for graphics... For the story, thanks to GraphickConverter I translated some thousands of images from my mac to my PC, including icons or to ico format. PowerFull Tool - paint tools where not as nice as Adobe's

OT - My Views on Rev Marketing

2005-11-26 Thread Dan Shafer
The current thread on how Rev should be priced and marketed led to several people -- one here on the list and a few others in private communication -- asking me for my views on the subject because I mentioned I had studied this kind of market several years ago for a defunct client.

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