On 12/7/05 2:18 PM, "Bill Marriott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You are also correct that Rev *does* face unique challenges when designing a > cross-platform development tool. It's very difficult to exactly support > every little detail of an OS while still enabling you to easily "write once, > deploy many." I suspect this is why the fonts on buttons don't match the > Windows OS exactly (they need to use Arial because that font is on all > systems), and why tabbed panels allow only one tier of tabs (they need to > maintain compatibility with Mac OS X). In fact I went back and forth with Scott Raney when OS X support was added to MetaCard about the subtleties of the controls that just werent "right" - he and I had several emails where I was helping him adjust a few pixels here and there. > p.s.: One little "nit" is that all of the items I mentioned in earlier posts > (specifically "calendar popups, notification tray support") are definitely > included with the current version of VBExpress. Whoops! Sorry - I guess I was remembering VB 6; haven't had a chance to review VB Express recently... going to do that now.. :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
