On May 21, 2006, at 9:52 PM, John R. Sowden wrote:
Revolution seems to be my solution for writing business apps. I am
a business
person, not a professional programmer, but I create all of my
internal apps,
currently in Foxpro/DOS. A couple of questions:
The description says the program creates "stand alone"
executables. To me
this means no "run time", no "token compiling", but it may mean
external
libraries. Is this true?
How big is "Hello World", meaning how much baggage (code bloat) is
included in
the executable?
A basic app will zip down to 1 MB, slightly less for WinXP
(example here: http://www.dvcreators.net/qt-movie-notetaker/)
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.
Is a database application, without multimedia features a good use
of this
product?
I am working on a couple data-intensive multiuser apps in Rev. I
started database programming in Borland Paradox/DOS in the 80's, I've
also used FoxPro, 4D and FileMaker, but I am pretty new to Rev, on
and off learning over the last few months mostly. Over the last
weekend I've written a bunch of handlers that serve as a library for
storing and retrieving data from a remote MySQL database and I am no
longer struggling, but finally coding very efficiently and really
happy with Rev for a database front end.
I would say it is not as fast as FoxPro/FileMaker to create a simple
local single user solution. However, once it comes time to deploy a
solution, especially a multiuser one, my evaluation so far is that
Rev is the faster, more flexible and powerful tool.
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.
We have sold thousands of copies of an application distributed on DVD-
ROM (programmed by the great Richard Gaskin) with ZERO problems. Not
even a single user saying the video was skipping, or the app crashed.
This is an OS X only app, but our customers have every kind of Mac
imaginable, from latest and greatest to old laptops and desktops.
We had so many Director problems this was a welcome change!
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?
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!
Thanks in advance,
--
John R. Sowden
AMERICAN SENTRY SYSTEMS, INC.
Residential & Commercial Alarm Service
UL Listed Central Station
Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.americansentry.net
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