On Thursday 21 December 2006 4:21 am, Emile SCHWARZ wrote: > Hi all, > > after a pause of nearly four months, I decided to go back to REALbasic on > Linux and asked for a licence number that I get faster than the speed of > light, thanks Andrew. > > I will not told you about the password that I forget and all of the hasle > of the installation process.
Hi Emile, For me installation was very easy. Only inconvenience is that I can't paste the serial number in. (I'm using the pro edition) > > I will just concentrate my attention to what I was... > > It seems to me that REALbasic on Linux is the pauper parent of the three > platforms. > I think there are some other MUCH MORE SERIOUS problems than the ones you've mentioned. 1) Printing won't work beyond 72 (Screen shot) dpi. Small type is unreadable and large type looks amateurish. 2) Applications made with RB cannot access the hard drive if the system was installed to use a non-unicode encoding. FileOpen, Save, shell commands, etc. all fail if the path has a non-American character anywhere in it. The RS engineers have spent some time looking at this and offered some suggestions for changing the system, but non-RB programs all manage to use the language settings that the user wants on his computer. 3) You can't scroll controls. They are drawn outside their proper boundries and in fact will draw on top of the menubar if youscroll them up far enough. For these there really are no practical workarounds and no indication that they will ever be fixed. ******************* >Ronald Vogelaar said in his email: >In short, the state of RB on Linux perfectly matches the state of Linux >itself? > ...looks promising, but (still!) not quite there yet. I think Linux itself is the best system I've ever seen. The problem is that all the programs are awful. Maybe related to the fact that they are (mostly) given away for free? Don _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
