Hmmm. Preston - you aren't that new here, you've been posting since
11/05. You have just noticed this?
If you are dissing the so-called "Earth Shoe and VW Bus OS" why
should you care to develop for it at all? Furthermore, it's just the
development for OS 9, not OSX, that is affected.
Look, Rev is a great tool to help bridge 'platform bigotry' and it's
always recommended to have an Enterprise License and a machine
running the IDE for every platform for testing and final tweaking.
It's absurd to expect the level perfection you seem to want from this
software. The fact is that Rev has made it a hell of a lot easier to
develop cross-platform applications than any other product that I've
seen.
sqb
The Revolution Website promises:
Revolution allows you to create true standalone applications for any
of the major platforms - Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X and Classic.
Develop on the operating system of your choice and preview the look
and feel of your target platform. Develop Linux and Unix
applications on Windows, develop Windows applications on Mac OS X -
you have total flexibility over where you develop and where you
deliver. And when you deliver, you don't incur additional license or
royalty fees - maximising your revenue and pricing flexibility,
while minimising your administration.
.. so, imagine my dismay when, having bought the product, spent a
month learning to use it (sorta) and having developed my project as
a standalone, I discovered from the conference on standalones that:
Note that the Mac OS option will not be available if you are running
on Windows or Linux. Due to the way MacOS works, you can only build
MacOS standalones using a Macintosh, though you can do it under Mac
OS X if you like.
I went back to the sweeping assertions and noticed that "Develop
Linux and Unix applications on Windows, develop Windows applications
on Mac" doesn't say you can develop Mac standalones on Windows -
only that one can preview the look and feel. Like "weapons of mass
destruction related program activities," one has to look carefully
to find out what it means by what it says." OK, I should have known
better. I'm not really even sore. But I would like to know what I'm
going to have to do to make a standalone for the Earth Shoe and VW
Bus OS. I've tried the Rev. docs (Ha! I should have known after a
month of ownership) and the otherwise admirable Rev.net on-line. Can
anyone point me in the right direction?
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stephen barncard
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