Six years ago I designed alternative toolbars for RR and Metacard, through my Master's Thesis
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RRRThesis/ I have been rabbiting on about xTalk-like programming environments and their GUIs . . . Pinching ideas from HyperNext cf; 'Splash Screen Designer' at revOnline under 'Richmond' and so on ... Why? Because I have a Big Bee in my Bonnet: somewhere down the line a few things got lost sight of: PCs can and should be used for experts to produce materials for content delivery and reinforcement without those experts having to learn either programming or the intricacies of the modern WIMP GUIs that are almost universal. Now MacKiev have acquired HyperStudio . . . HyperStudio was supposed to be the "poor man's HyperCard" insofar as programming was reduced to a minimum My criticism of the path that HyperStudio took was that the end-user was enslaved by templates that restricted individual choice and possibilities (and, I personally, found the Dachshund vomit-making). We don't know what MacKiev are going to do with HyperStudio; let's hope it is better than what HyperStudio was, and lets hope it is sufficiently user-friendly that it doesn't look like RevMedia, i.e. a cut-down version of something that is extremely powerful without the advantages that could come from a re-designed interface that would empower a non-specialist. Whatever HyperStudio, HyperNext and TileStack become, we, if we want Runtime Revolution to continue to be a market leader in this area, should watch them very closely and, when we see something good, adapt and improve those ideas for RR. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson ____________________________________________________________ A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. ____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ Support the World Aids Awareness campaign this month with Yahoo! For Good http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
