Le 23 sept. 08 à 19:24, Thomas McGrath III a écrit :
François,
Stacks will not run natively on the iPhone with any version of the
Rev player. This is because most of the controls on the iPhone are
not compatible with the controls in Revolution. This means that
buttons, fields, images, players, etc. will not port over. The code
might since that is just text until compiled. The player/IDE would
need to provide a set of controls 'specific' to the iPhone and
stacks would have to adhere to these. So any old stacks would need
to be rewritten.
I understand. This does require some development, it was obvious in
my mind, I should have mentioned it. In a another post, I mentioned
the interface differences between classic GUI computers and iPhones/
iPod touch. Many features can be ported however: buttons do exists,
slider controls exist, field scrolling is done by finger sliding,
menus are replaced by a scrolling wheel, media players could
certainly be created considering the wide amount of media format
supported. I'm pretty sure you can put an image on a control.
I completely agree that stacks should be rewritten and the IDE would
have the an iPhone mode. The main issue, in my opinion, is that
screen estate is so small that multiple windows are never used.
But my point is elsewhere and it is the same point that gave
Hypercard its appeal: the ability to bypass the classic development
scheme. For the Mac, this meant you didn't have to learn Inside
Macintosh and use MPW. This is the same with "modern" platforms.
On the iPhone,/iPod touch, if you want to develop an application, you
have to go through XCode PLUS the convoluted Apple distribution
scheme. If the iPhone stack player + Dedicated IDE of a computer was
implemented, this would mean an acceleration in the development cycle
of iPhone "applications". Consider for instance that, because of the
NDA, iPhone developers cannot even discuss together on a list such as
this one!
I said elsewhere that I am not a professional programer, but, as far
as transcript is concerned, it should be possible to port it to the
iPhone facelessly. Now the only issue that I see is whether the
iPhone SDK allows control (or other interface elements) to be created
at runtime instead of having if defined, say, by the interface
builder. If some people here have toyed (or more) with the iPhone
SDK, this would be an interesting element to consider.
Very best regards,
François
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