Hi Bob, Everything you say if perfectly valid, and believe me, I'm only now starting to comprehend how incomprehensible the task is that RunRev have chosen;-) to make a multi-platform RAD. I really feel for the company when, after enormous amounts of manpower have transformed HyperCard into something, that as far as I'm concerned, pulls rabbits out of hats, but none of this black magic is mentioned, the press focus on the UI that is clunky so all LC is good for is prototyping.
IMO I think the VERY opinionated views of this thread about what a UI should be go along way in explaining why Apple products have been so successful. They are NEVER top spec, in some cases arguable low spec, but they are priced over top spec and this seems to be justifiable by the commonly agreed characteristic that the User Interface/Experience is so: seamless, fluid, intuitive, smooth, gorgeous, natural, effortless - and at least a dozen other superlatives that the press boys can come up with. UI is extremely important to us, even emotional, Richmond wants to go back to Claris '97 it made such a connection with him ;-) Fact is, today, Claris '97 isn't going to cut it, the youth of today, in 20 years will be lamenting whatever happened to the good ole Angry Birds '11 UI. Today's UI is what today's UI is and apart from the few Scott Rossi's out there who can do a better job, for us mere mortals it would be nice to able to use today's UI rather than last decade's UI. A 15 yr old at the school my wife works at, has two games in the iApp Store. He's no whizz kid, it would appear that the only people that have bought his game are his mates and probably every family member, BUT, I guess he's been programming for less than 2 years and yet everything UI is native - looks native, feels native. I've been scripting since HC came out, and yet I can't get native. Sure, I could go Xcode, and I have dipped my toes in a couple of times, only to find the temperature frigid - it would also reinforce the sentiment that LC is for prototyping. RunRev have won me over, they have no worries there, I'll keep coming back, xTalk and scripting gels with the way my brain function - or doesn't function more to the point. I do appreciate all the magic they do, even if I only comprehend a scratch on the surface of the many hurdles they face. It's been discussed many times what made HC so popular, and maybe it was the fact that it was just another Apple paradigm - it wasn't top spec, you could get to half of the Mac's processes, but it's UI was 100% Mac, so what you could do with it, it looked right, felt right and you connected with it. My original comment stands, I'd really like to see RunRev cross the "native widget and resource file" hurdle. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
