I am currently putting together a brace of programs for fairly basic EFL learners to revise careers/jobs (what the series of EFL textbooks I use, in an almost vomit-making effort at over political correctness terms 'community helpers') and, while spending hours and hours twiddling away with GIMP because I am an extremely fussy so-and-so about the standard of graphics in my programs, I am able to pop the actual programs together in Runtime Revolution in "a brace of shakes" as the saying goes.
Once I have assembled all the 'raw materials'; graphic elements textual elements multimedia elements to produce a fully functioning standalone is normally an extremely rapid and painless procedure. While these programs are not 'rocket science' in terms of programming, I tried the same with ToolBook and Director in the past, and recently with HyperStudio, and really got extremely 'bogged down' in silly little details that, if they are there in Revolution take care of themselves without my intervention. Quite apart from the fact that these IDEs tie one down to specific platforms. Whatever else my criticisms of Revolution may be, I will always be grateful about the way it has made my work so easy. However . . . (well, face it, Richmond can never bite his tongue), I don't think enough is being done to advertise Revolution to other in the sector I work within. Meeting EFL 'colleagues' (unpleasant word) round and about Plovdiv, Bulgaria [ and, in the Balkan peninsular, the EFL industry is HUGE = big bucks ] I constantly get 'funny' looks when I state that with Revolution I could teach all the EFL teachers in Bulgaria how to put together quite respectable programs for content delivery and reinforcement in a couple of afternoons. Mind you, I also get 'funny' looks when I see all the EFL schools with Pentium IIIs sitting 'rotting' in the corners with non-functioning Windows 98 on them and I suggest they wake them up again with something like Xubuntu coupled with programs written in 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