Hello, I am in the process of writing an article about runrev, and would like to ask you about two things:
Did you experience that you wanted to make a project, but where unable to do it with runrev? For example because a technology was not supported, not fast enough or because it was otherwise not up to the task.
Well, I am a great fan of RunRev but I have been frustrated by one or two bugs (or apparent bugs) which I have not yet found workarounds for. I had some difficulty with simple QuickTime movies which didn't perform quite as I expected. I abandoned these for animated GIFs and have had some difficulty with them too. I guess what I'm saying is that RunRev will theoretically do everything I've ever wanted to do, but in practical terms sometimes it's hard to get everything to work.
I am also very sympathetic to Richard Gaskin's remarks about printing, and have my own specific grumbles. I find it extraordinary that I still can't know exactly what the printable area is for the combination of printer and media that the user has chosen (I'm not talking about the page size, but about the margins of the area within the page where the printing engine can actually make a mark). I had to abandon part of a development because of this limitation, and the workaround doesn't look so good to the user as I would like. Imagine any form of printout where you could allow the user to set margins but wouldn't be able to issue a warning if the printing would be clipped. (When I grumbled about this some time ago, Scott Raney intervened to say that it wasn't possible to provide this info on all platforms. I still can't understand how this can be so when other apps seem to be able to get this information readily).
DId you realise any projects that you did not think that it would be possible to do with runrev?
Not so far - but I am very impressed with the range of capabilities offered, so I expect to be surprised in the future.
Finally, I would like to say that I cannot see any alternative at all for cross-platform development for someone like me (programming background going back a long way but the only acquaintance with development on modern OSs being through X-talk). So I couldn't do ANY projects which need to be delivered on both Mac and Windows if it wasn't for RunRev.
Graham
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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK & France
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