Wally,
Thanks for your input. Like you, I am not a developer by training.
I have a few different solutions, written in Filemaker, which target
mostly Art and Antique galleries. I have been wondering about
picking up RealBasic, which looks nice, but not quite as intuitive as
Revolution. So I imagine that it will take me little longer to
become productive in RB than in Revolution. I also wonder whether
once the learning curve has been conquered, whether Revolution would
still be faster than RB. I have a feeling that it would be...
Thanks,
Michael
On Mar 14, 2006, at 3:45 PM, Wally Rodriguez wrote:
Hello Michael:
As a non-developer type I might be able to give you yet another
perspective on Rev. I own a post-production finishing house for
commercials. My days are crazy with just my normal job and then I
have to manage the IT needs and I'm also in charge of engineering.
I did a very small amount of HyperCard programming back in '91-'93
and have put together a few filemaker pro databases, but basically
have no experience as a programmer.
The fact that the program can switch from "programming" mode to
"run" mode while you work makes it very easy and quick to see what
you're going to get.
Using Revolution I have been able to:
1. Automate our web page generation for client feedback. This is a
relatively complex setup that reads movies placed in various
folders on our webserver and with some user input, generates
password-protected php web pages that look every bit as good as
others out there.
2. Created a touch-screen interface for iTunes to run on a
powerbook in my car.
3. Created a slate generator (slates are the identifiers used in
commercials). This program combines some background image with text
to create sequential countdowns for our video projects. It runs on
XP and OSX. In the month or so it's been running it has generated
over 2000 images!
I'm in the process of building a home-control application that acts
as a client to iRed (an infrared remote server). The cool thing
about this app is that it's allowed me to rescue a couple of old
machines to use as controllers. The standalone client currently
runs on OS9, XP tablet edition and OSX. This in itself is pretty
amazing.
All of this while doing the rest of my work and without looking
back. I strongly recommend the product.
Two things, start with v 2.6.1, (especially if you're going to be
developing on windows) and I understand that there is a deal where
you get Constellation for free. It's worth the $50 it costs anyway,
but free is soo much better! :-)
So I find that it's the easiest way to write code that can actually
do something without having to lear a complex and cryptic language.
W.
On Mar 10, 2006, at 10:45 AM, Mvreade wrote:
Hi,
I've been playing with Revolution for a few days and am VERY
impressed with its capabilities and ease of use.
I do however, have a few questions and reservations, which
hopefully you guys can answer.
I found it a bit buggy (using a iBook G4, 1G of memory, on OSX
10.4). The property inspector went blank a few times, the
application crashed once, the sample database query in the example
solutions was updating records, demo videos weren't displaying, to
mention a few.
So the quesiton is, how good of an environment to work on is it?
And how stable are the final applications?
For users who have used Rev for databases, I was wondering what
it's like to develop a system with, say, 20 tables and lots or
relationships and methods?
Where would one store all the methods?
For relationships, would one just keep a VERYlong list of Database
Queries?
Finally, does any one know if Runtime Revolution Ltd has any plans
to have a connection to an open source, embeddable database, such
as SQLite?
Thanks for your help,
Michael Reade
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