On Monday, Jun 2, 2003, at 00:46 Europe/Vienna, Edwin Gore wrote:
I think people have some widely divergent ideas about what constitutes a cross platform development environment.
To my mind it should be a case of the anything that you do using just RunRev runs anywhere, but at the same time it should actually support the platform specific features of different operating systems. That way the developer can make informed decisions about how they want to handle cross platform issues when RunRev doesn't natively support something.
Agree with that, but
Adding support for Applescript, XCMDs, ActiveX and whatever the OS-X/unix equivelents might be doesn't reduce the cross-platform capabiilities of RunRev, it increases it. Those are all important parts of the individual platforms, and if you don't consider support for them, it makes the development system too limited to appeal to developers across the board. If you only support the lowest common denominator of what can be supported on ALL platforms, you end up with what is a very limited subset of the power of each individual operating system.if you think this to the end, than the engine must support all this thousands of controls out there... Does this mean we well get 2.5 or 3.0 in 4 years at least, or does it mean a tool in permanent beta..? brrrrrr...
ActiveX is a big part of the Windows architecture these days. There are thousands of controls out there already, and it would be great to get access to them.
Thats why I think it cant support any platform specific features, because the MC engine runs not only on Mac, WIN and Linux and his versions, there are about 10-12 other flavours of other OSes too...
So I its imho better to support the standards, instead of any platform specific features on all platforms...
My 2 cent
regards Wolfgang M. Bereuter
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