Oops sorry - Repeat send this time with subject, forgot to add the subject steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 9:49 AM Subject: Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 6, Issue 89
> Geoff, > > This is all good of course but what about those windows media issues raised > many times on the list. Here in the UK, the windows/mac balance is probably > 95%/5%. Certainly everything I build for school use and club use is Windows. > > I bought my Rev partly on its multimedia and cross platform capability - > then find, like many others that Rev when targetted for windows doesn't > properly support native windows files (Wav/AVIs) except in a very limited > form and many basic features are not available. AVI and WAV is a big part of > multimedia in the windows environment. It is clear from recent posts that > users are still trying to find workarounds for progress bars etc playing > AVIs in windows. And as for SAPI - I seem to remember speech was a specific > feature of Rev 2, and Win XP was hardly new when Rev 2 came out. > Personally, I don't feel it is valid to claim these features which really > require third party support - its a bit like claiming distribution in a > compressed format without providing a self decompression because a win XP > target machine has a decompressor built in - doesn't help the users of 98, > 95 etc. > As has been mentioned many times on the list, these sort of users do not > have the knowledge or admin rights to download QT or SAPI4 to their > machines. > And the 'cell' fields - do they really have the functionality suggested? > > So I guess my question would be - are these new features to be paid for > (again, in my view) or are they bug fixes? > > To end on a positive though, like all the others on the list I am still very > impressed with what rev allows me to do in a very short time and see these > as important feature limitations to me, but also only a small subset of what > Rev does very well. As I don't use web, XML, Mac build etc type features and > it is just unfortunate for me, this small subset is actually a large part of > what I use it for, so for me it is a big blocker. > > Cheers > Steve > > > Message: 3 > > Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 16:02:46 -0800 > > From: Geoff Canyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before > > moving ahead > > To: How to use Revolution <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > > > On Mar 12, 2004, at 5:24 AM, Frank Leahy wrote: > > > > > Sounds like 2.2 might be more like a 2.1.5. > > > > 2.2 will include: > > -- Native look and feel for Windows XP > > -- Support for OS X Panther appearance changes (metal groups, for > > example) > > -- A new, vastly improved, distribution builder > > -- Support for the full range of Windows icons > > -- Improved database linked controls > > -- Numerous bug fixes and other feature enhancements > > > > regards, > > > > Geoff Canyon > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
