Lynn,
I cannot sell them on more than the $49 I've already sold them on. I
found a kludgie workaround. I'm not totally happy with it but with
that one danged Player issue I had to find some other way. The
backdrop is ridiculous. I don't know of any products excepting a few
games where the desktop is obliterated and cannot be gotten to. I'm
not sure who the target audience for Media is, but the Player should
really not force the backdrop unless the stack creator believes it's
useful.
There is no place that tells you exactly what the difference is
between Media, Studio and Enterprise before you purchase. There is
no list of specific details, handlers, commands, nothing about the
Player, I looked high and lo before making a case to them. And Media
allowed me to create exactly what they needed. At their office. On
their nickel. And as technically Media belongs to them (and
Enterprise belongs to me), I could simply allow them to use the
stacks with Media itself, which is what I've done. I'd have much
rather them use the stacks with the Player so that they cannot ball
anything up or get confused.
I put in the preOpenStack handler to hide the Tools stack, Rev
menubar and message box. This created a bit of a weird bug where the
browse tool became the select tool and you couldn't push a button or
menu item or anything, so I had to add Choose Browse Tool after
hiding the Rev stacks.
But they could still access the development environment with
Control-keys and I discovered by right-clicking they get Rev menus.
Haven't figured out how to turn this off.
Any road, if anybody knows a way to disable all the built in menu
items accessed with control keys and right clicking anywhere, I would
appreciate it.
Once they've been using the stacks awhile and I know all the bugs are
worked out and everything they want added has been added, I could
bring them home and turn them into a standalone to prevent them
accessing where they shouldn't be. But I was trying to use the
Player as Rev intended Media stacks to be used with.
Shari
Revolution Media has this limitation to narrow the scope of applications it
can create to multimedia type projects that "own" the computer they are
running on - meaning its great for a presentation, multimedia type game,
kiosk and the like, but not so for multi window applications. At $49,
Revolution Media is an extremely powerful package. If you want to build more
sophisticated, professional applications, then Revolution Studio is the way
to go. And thanks to the major price drop that happened not all that long
ago, a Media -> Studio upgrade is an even better deal.
If you already have Enterprise at home - I shouldn't have to be selling you
on Studio or Enterprise ;-)
Best regards,
Lynn Fredricks
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