William, have a look at Trevor Devore's GLX application framework:
http://www.bluemangolearning.com/developer/revolution/
It's pobably not even close to possible for RunRev themselves to
implement every single thing that is commonly used by developers, but
happily, developers have a habit of building their own tools, and
people around here seem to be inclned to share - there really is a
lot of stuff available.
One problem we have is that unlike PHP or some other languages, there
isn't a central repository for everything avialable - though it seems
that RunRev are planning a major reworking of Rev Online, I'd imagine
with this exact problem in mind.
Have a look at the "Revolution Search Engine" under the help menu -
that will help you find stuff, and the rev web-ring also will take
you to many useful resources - you can start at my page and go from
there: http://futsoft.futilism.com/revolutionstuff.html
Best,
Mark
On 5 Dec 2008, at 14:18, william humphrey wrote:
I've never made software that anyone else had to use so I never
noticed how
many things are missing in RunRev.
1. There is an excellent menu builder.
2. There is no preference file builder. This should call a sqlite
plist file
or something for your program so it can load the information
necessary to
run any version of your software. It should also have a flag so you
can know
if the computer is meant to host the server or if it is one of the
clients.
It needs user name, host name, database name, password, and all
kinds of
other stuff like whether it is a Valentina server or a MySQL server.
3. There is no automatic "update my program from a remote server on
the
internet". This is something everyone is familiar with in commercial
software and it is crazy (in my opinion) to make every developer re-
write
this. The above preference file would be necessary first especially
if you
also update the database schema and have to run a back-up of that data
first.
4. Serial number versioning system and protection scheme for unlocking
compiled copies of your program after a 30 day trial period. Every
commercial software has this too. I read this list about various
people
trying to invent this. Shouldn't it be available for everyone?
It seems to me that there are many genius developers on this
mailing list.
Why can't one come forward (like maybe Andre for the automatic
update my
program over the internet substack) and the rest of us all offer
him $100 a
piece to make that substack? In these down economic times maybe a
socialist
solution like this would be a good idea? Unless, of course, some
one is
already working on these solutions or has them already and will
sell them
for a reasonable price?
Thanks, I'm going to go back in my grass hut now...
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