Joe,
Your welcome. I never wrote any externals (I was close a couple of
times) but I had to laugh at your comment about being up to your eye-
brows in your own HC externals.
Truth be told, my company bought the Viao for me and other than cross-
platform development I don't use it much for anything else. I used to
work with main frame computers Genigraphics, Moonbase, Zerox, etc. and
then transfered my knowledge to Macs and PCs back almost twenty years
ago and HC was my first interest in writing my own tools that were
missing back then. The Mac was closer in my mind to the Zerox computer
and always seemed to win out when given the choice. Sort of like
Revolution feels now.
Regards,
Tom McGrath
On May 29, 2008, at 11:50 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
Thomas,
For the most part, I agree with your sympathies and, were I a full-
time developer, probably even more so. I, too, purchased SC, but
didn't find that it really offered me things I couldn't get from HC
- at that time - with a little more effort; something I really
enjoyed. Hey, I was up to my eye-brows in my own HC externals, and
such, at that time to the extent of being almost a full-time
developer. I, too - though reluctantly, work on both platforms these
days, but I've never actually succumbed to buying a PC. Awkward at
times, and always feel as if I'm walking on water with XP open -
wondering if faith alone will keep me afloat, and hating the fact
that I still had to buy an XP license from M$, but life goes on.
You're probably right, and I too would probably not have considered
Rev if it were Mac only, though it appears I will probably end up
using it that way. Thanks for your objectivity.
As a side note, with respect to searching for things - at least on
Macs - don't forget Spotlight's amazing search capabilities. I've
used it a number of times to locate specific items in Rev and other
stuff. Even my drawings where I have notes and on PDFs as well. Of
course, most of the time, you have to do a double barreled search
once you have a document open, and not all are as good at that as
Adobe's PDFs.
Joe Wilkins
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