From: Troy Rollins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Is Rev too "Mac focused"? To: How to use Revolution <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
On Aug 7, 2004, at 5:25 PM, Ken Ray wrote:
Here's a couple of goodies:
1) Inability to use ActiveX or COM controls (although with Chipp's altBrowser you can use them in a web browser, but that's different).
I know Director can use ActiveX, what other x-plat tools can? Does RealBasic?
3) Inability to call "normal" (i.e. not developed specifically for Rev)
DLLs.
Which x-plat development tools can do this?
The problem with these types of question -- "but aren't we as good as the other cross-platform tools?" -- is that most developers aren't asking whether other *cross-platform development* tools can do these things, they're asking whether *development* tools can do these things (because most developers don't really care about cross-platform development.)
With native API support, the ability to call native libraries (dlls, etc.), and the addition of a more widely-used syntax, RunRev could give the best single-platform tools a run for their money. But as long as RunRev continues to make decisions based on its being just another cross-platform tool, then they will miss out on being the best tool, regardless of platform.
Just my 2p...
-- Frank Leahy
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