I've been following the discussion a bit regarding Apple's policies that affect the likelihood that RevMobile will ever find its way onto the iPhone and iPad, and I appreciate the many perspectives offered, they've tempered my own contempt for SJ a bit, though not enough for me to confer any blessings. I'm wondering what is going to happen with our quite expensive RevMobile licenses -- perhaps it's too early to tell, but if I can't program for Apple mobile products, then I donĀ¹t really have any use for RevMobile, and I hope that Rev will simply allow me to transfer the cost of it to license renewals of versions of Rev that DO run on Apple products, though who knows when the proverbial wild hair will cause SJ to banish all but Objective C for my Mac as well. RevMobile was priced quite expensively, presumably under the assumption that it was the golden egg of Rev programming products that was finally going to get me that Lamborghini Countach. Now it's a brick, and we need to figure out what to do. We are all very loyal to Rev and its wonderful staff, but something reasonable will have to be done in the face of this disastrous development.
I love the comments about HyperCard, because I too was there, especially the BAD stacks, which outnumbered GOOD stacks at least 50 to 1. I remember! I haven't gone NEAR the pattern palette since! I am a university professor, and did my dissertation research using HyperCard, a dialect survey of a North American aboriginal language spoken over much of Canada and the upper midwest of the U.S. HyperCard greatly enabled me to do REALLY GOOD research, and I continue to use Rev in, well, revolutionary ways in documentary linguistic work. I don't know what I'd use if it didn't exist, I use it every day for some programming need I have. It's not perfect-- the biggest problem for me is the lack of really transparent Unicode usage. But it is REALLY good. I am a language teacher, too, and I've used Rev to make some wonderful teaching tools, and that was my primary interest in using RevMobile, so that I could develop simple language learning tools for my students. I cannot effectively communicate my annoyance that someone can program yet another bloodbath game with stick figures but I cannot use the iPad to circulate language learning programs for a dying language because I happen to use a program that SJ has decided to sort with the goats. This is not an idle issue for me. I also use FMTouch, a really cute implementation of part of FileMaker on the iDevice. My impression is that they are in some way up a creek just as Rev is regarding enabling third party access to the vaunted App Store. They have a wiki discussing various programming/implementation issues and talk about something called Application Provisioning, here http://www.fmwebschool.com/reference/FMTouch_Reference#Application_Provision ing It seems that this would be relevant to just about anything we might to do with deploying to an iDevice. rand valentine _______________________________________________ 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