The concept was amazing... the gui confusing but today it would be cool in 3D with runrev scripts in it!
;) Xavier dreaming of an ideal ide ;) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Peter T. Evensen > Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 17:50 > To: How to use Revolution > Subject: Re: Prograph (was Re: MacWorld part 2) > > I developed 5 engines (21 titles) in Prograph CPX. I loved > Prograph, although I was disappointed when they finally > released it for Windows and CPX (the ABCs) didn't live up to > the cross-platform promises (it took a lot of work to work > around bugs on Windows). It seems their application classes > were Mac-centric and so it was difficult to shoe-horn them > onto the Window's API. > > I was sad that Pictorius tried to make themselves into an > internet company, rather than pursuing Prograph and making it > a better cross-platform development environment. > > I am surprised to see it reborn as Marten. Looking at the > website, though, it appears that it is Mac only. > > At 10:22 AM 1/15/2005, you wrote: > > >On Jan 14, 2005, at 6:45 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: > > > >>As some of you may know, I wrote one of two books published on > >>Prograph before that product/company essentially went > belly-up. (Hmmm. > >>I hope I don't have the decidedly unhelpful effect on *all* the > >>companies whose products I write books about. heh heh) > >> > >>My friend (like me) was a fairly ardent fan of Prograph and we were > >>both sad to see it go away. It truly is the ONLY completely visual > >>programming environment I've ever seen and although it > takes a while > >>to wrap your head around it, its power was truly amazing. And it > >>really is fully object-oriented. > > > >I paid the big bucks for Prograph. It had a name like > Prograph CPX 1.0 > >or something. I figured since I liked LabVIEW and functional > >programming, that it would be great for me. > > > >The problem was that it crashed every few minutes and didn't work in > >between. It had zillions of bugs and zero support. I threw it away. > >That was so frustrating since I wanted it to work. I > imagine a lot of > >folks were cheated this way. > > > >So, it wasn't you, Dan. The company cheated folks and > forced them to > >turn the name into a curse word. They did it to themselves. > > > >(I didn't see any OOP.) > > > >Dar > > > >********************************************** > > DSC (Dar Scott Consulting & Dar's Lab) > > http://www.swcp.com/dsc/ > > Programming Services and Software > >********************************************** > > > >_______________________________________________ > >use-revolution mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > Peter T. Evensen > http://www.PetersRoadToHealth.com > 24-hour recorded info hotline: 1-800-624-7671 > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
