Dan's already voiced his opinions, so I'll add a few of my own:
On 5/22/06, John R. Sowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am a business person, not a professional programmer, but I create all of my internal apps, currently in Foxpro/DOS.
I use Rev as a hobby, never taken a computer/programming lesson in my life, Rev suits me very nicely.
Does revolution lend itself to creating simple applications quickly? Example, I can create a simple name/address database application in Foxpro/DOS with menu, add, edit, search, select index, etc. in about 1 hour including creating the database structure.
Do this all the time. Your first one will definitely take longer, and there is the Rev mindset that you need to come to grips with (a week or two) but once the penny has dropped, you'll be wishing you'd found Rev earlier:-) Is a database application, without multimedia features a good use of this
product?
A most resounding YES! I do Rev front ends to mySQL dbs all the time - probably more often than I should. It's just so easy. Are there any hidden problems that are not discussed in the web/faq, etc.,
like "copy protection" methods that require dongles, keeping the licensed program on the computer/lan that the compiled application is running on, etc.
Your best resource will be this list. If you can't find it in the docs ( and a lot of people cant') a call to this list will soon have you headed in the right direction.
My operating system of choice is linux (currently Suse 9.3), not a windows os. Is this a good match, or is this a windows product that usually runs on Linux, with little support?
I'm and OSX user, and as Dan mentioned the feeling is probably Rev is and OSX, Windows then Linux product - in that order. I've seen quite a few gripes about Rev on Linux, but the posters still keep coming back so I assume that it's just that, a gripe, not a 'can't live with it'. I'm sure some Linux users will step in here. The old adage, "if it looks to good to be true, it probably is" keeps
ringing in my mind, but revolution could also be a minimally marketed diamond in the rough!
From an old guy with no computer training on Mac who just wants to tinker,
the options were/are pretty limited. We had HyperCard in the early days and that was just brilliant - until it's untimely demise:-( I tried CodeWarrior and C/C++ and always felt out of my depth (way out of my depth) and certainly didn't enjoy, or at least wasn't as productive so never stuck with it. The first version of Rev I came across (1.x) was 'to good to be true' - it appeared to be the answer but had too many rough edges. The current version is a much better product, not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but comprehensive enough that hobbiests like myself can wade in as deep as we like but professional programmers get the tools to go to depths I can't fathom, and companies get to sell rock solid products:-) I recommend you give it a good solid trial, ask questions here, and then you can determine if it is a diamond in the rough. HTH _______________________________________________ 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
