On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Josh Mellicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To me, continuing to refine Rev's power in making it easier to work with > databases, improving table fields, Quicktime and AVI functions, adding more > standard widgets like popup calendars and various types of grids, better > text processing... in my opinion, improving those core functions is so much > more important than trying to make it a do everything solution, especially > for a smaller company. > I tend to agree with this, but on the other hand I don't. Sometimes I read posts here about people wanting better this, or better that, and usually they make a reference to some app like; 'it's been in FileMaker for years, like Excel has, similar to PowerPoint, just like iTunes, etc etc'. This is worse than comparing chalk to cheese. I rarely see any 'I want x,y or x, just like Xcode, or name your favourite development environment.' I don't know, I've never really done much with Xcode, but I imagine creating a table that works just like Excel probably takes a lot of hard work. So I ask, what is Revs 'core function'. Is it to become more like FileMaker,Excel,PowerPoint,iCal,PhotoShop,etc etc? or is to make cross-platform app development 'in general' easier? (I guess the definition of 'in general' is where opinion will be most varied:-) I've read that the iPhone platform is one of the fastest growing platforms and will, maybe already does, exceed both Linux and Mac platforms in terms of total numbers. IF that is the case, and IF what Terry says about the differences are correct, then if I were RunRev I'd be very very seriously looking at the prospects of iPhone development. IMO to bring Rev like development to the iPhone would ignite a HyperCard like cult - the size of which depending very much on cost. I'm sure there are school loads of kids out there who when faced with the effort required to labour through Xcode, would just give up. But with the 'core' ease of Rev it would be a whole new ball game. Sure, they won't produce anything like FileMaker or iCal etc, but neither did the vast majority of HC users. Again, price of entry would be the key sticking point here. I already have an 'App' (loose use of the term) I developed with a Palm Db program. I do a text dump from my Palm to my Mac and then use Rev to read the file and feed it into a Rev app. If I could develop apps on the iPhone I'd buy an iPhone. Yes, I don't own one now, but if I could develop little utilities for the iPhone in Rev then I already have a couple of little thing in mind that I could throw together and that would be enough to justify buying an iPhone. Just my 2 clams worth _______________________________________________ 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
