I need to deploy my apps on Mac (pre- and post-OSX) and on PC. I also work in two locations, with the most suitable (fastest, etc) development machine being a Mac in one location and a PC in the other. So I have to keep switching development platforms even within a project - I just cut a CD on the machine I'm using and take it to the other location. Frankly I am amazed at how easy this is - I can't say I have ever had a significant problem arising just from switching development platforms. AFAIK only RunRev offers this - and they've made an excellent job of it.

OTOH I find I absolutely **have to** do my late testing on each deployment platform - you can't really debug an AppleEvent handler on a Windows box, for example, and the font and font size problems others have mentioned often seem to call for hand tweaking on the deployment system. Then there's the menu bar issue: RunRev's built-in method of hiding the Windows-style menu bar by cutting off the top of a window is not appropriate in some cases (for example when you're desperate to use every pixel of height - happens when the user demands a VGA screen size - yes, some still do!), and I've also had to tinker with the Registry (thanks to advice from this list) in order to make sure a window fills the screen but doesn't overfill it. Et cetera. I really don't see how one could produce an industrial strength app on any platform without at least some testing and indeed debugging on that actual platform.

Graham
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         Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK & France
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