Point: I wonder if these differences between Rev stacks on platforms can be given any precise definition? And documented? or is it really total quicksand?
We also develop on OSX and would never work on a Windows machine. So, can "field sizes too small on Classic 9.0" can be given a definition?
e.g. "a 12 point font in a button that is 14 pixels tall, centered vertically on a Mac will fall two points lower on a PC, the solution is to set the text height of the button on windows to 14 (or whatever) (which is not a legal property of a text button any more, but I used to do it...) or, simply make all your buttons 16 pixels tall if you are using 12 point fonts.. on the PC the label will sit a bit lower but still have a good bottom margin."
Or, are the continuous OS upgrades and subsequent changes/breakages created by the OS engineers going to make any documentation for appears on any platform obsolete in six months?
In any case, were someone who did a lot of Mac/Windows deployment and tweaking, to document what they do in more specific and "minute" terms (with the disclaimer that only God knows if it will be true when Panther become Lynx or Windows XP becomes Windows ZX)
That could be extremely useful to the everyone. Right now I just tend to give fields and buttons on the Mac a lot of breathing room and it seems to appear OK on the PC... i.e. its a fishing expedition each time... ;-)
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On Nov 5, 2003, at 1:47 PM, Thomas Cole wrote:
I'm working on my first big project with Revolution and I'm using OSX to develop in. I want the software to run on any mac and any windows machine. It's working surprisingly well. Revolution is a great piece of software.
My experience so far -- as limited as it is -- is different from what I am reading here. I have found that the Mac classic standalones need much more tweaking than the PC ones. Fields are too small mostly -- or the fonts get too big or whatever. I'm surprised at this because coming from HyperCard I remember how perfectly the stacks would run on any Mac with no field size problems of any kind. Yet the PC standalones are more faithful to the OSX development view with regard to font size -- although the fonts are spidery sometimes and not as nice as on a Mac. Any tips for keeping things the same on all platforms?
I'm rather a neophyte and I don't even know which standalone for Mac to distribute or what the difference is: Fat. PPC. or 68. (I'll certainly want to distribute the OSX version.) If someone could set me straight on this, I'd be grateful.
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