Andre, Thanks for that succinct explanation.
I KNEW I needed to clap my trap until hearing from my betters ;-) Perhaps the more knowledgeable of you all could weigh in... Thanks! Judy On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Andre Garzia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Judy, > > yes and no... > > Rev applications can't access some stuff that Cocoa applications can. > For example, our field object is not the cocoa framework field object, > we can't have those nice toolbars either... We can't tap the full > cocoalicious things because we'd loose the cross platorm features. The > field object for example needs to behave the same in all platforms, so > in the end, it can't take advantage of all things cocoa frameworks > deliver. > > Yes our applications are bundles and they do call OS and Cocoa > frameworks, but they are not as Native as an XCode + Interface builder > application is. If you want to answer that thread, you can point to > the write once, deploy anywhere nature of Revolution, but you can't > tell that you can have eveything a cocoa app can have because you > actually can't. > > What the RunRev team delivers is the best of both worlds, it is as > cocoa as it can be while mantaining cross platorm and feature > completeness. > > Cheers > andre > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Judy Perry > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was just reviewing comments on the macNN Rev thread and came upon this one: >> >> "No cross-platform framework can create an app on the Mac that feels >> as native or as usable as a Cocoa app, and the lack of attention to >> detail shows" >> >> What? Am I missing something? I had thought that Rev made direct >> calls to the OS/other abstract geeky things I don't currently need to >> know about so that the machine on which the Rev app was deployed drew >> native OS controls rather than the Rev engine emulating them. >> >> Is this not the case? >> >> Thought that I'd check before I made an idiot of myself for the >> millionth time... >> >> Regards, >> >> Judy >> _______________________________________________ >> use-revolution mailing list >> use-revolution@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >> > > > > -- > http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
