This is the best list I have ever been apart of !!! The people are helpful and suggestive and just generally good people. If you have problems come here and you WILL find an answer or a direction to look in.
Everyone here has helped me with my transition to REV. Even when it was quite obvious that I didn't read the docs and was being very lazy about it. I hope to give back to this community what was given to me.
Cheers,
Tom
On Dec 22, 2003, at 7:56 AM, Thomas J McGrath III wrote:
John,
I am new to Revolution but spent years developing in SuperCard. I started using REV in late October and have creates a marketing CD for a third party that is cross platform in just two months. I can say that REV seems solid on both WIN and Mac as far as system differences go. The only gotchas that I have seen are mostly in my own lack of understanding for "One tool" and one stack to work on both systems. A lot of pre planning is needed to deal with the visual issues of both platforms.
Rev does have a few gotchas within it's own IDE that I believe are getting worked on as we speak and yes I have had to learn quickly how to get around them.
My problem areas were:
Treating groups correctly. In my case OVER correctly. :-)
Text formatting for both platforms. And inconsistent issues within REV. - This is being worked on.
Dealing with systems that don't have Quicktime. - More of a understanding issue
GUI differences on both platforms.
New functions and syntax from what I was used to.
Relative paths and defaultFolder. - there is a fix for in development.
I have learned quickly and feel very comfortable in a short time.
I downloaded Every stack I could find online and read every line of code in them. I still go back and open one or two a day and 'rip' them apart for understanding.
I don't know about number 2. and 3. is in the Groups. P.S. if you don't make the group first before you make new cards then it won't be included on each new card after the fact. I just right a button to repeat for number of cards and paste. Then before I hit the button I do a copy of the grouped objects. It does not seem to cause any adverse affects having to do this. I wish there were a way to create a 'background' element. However if you already have a background group on all cards you can add to this group after the fact and the new object within this group will be included in all cards that have that background group.
HTH
Tom
On Dec 21, 2003, at 7:53 PM, John Ballard wrote:
Hi All,
I've been developing courseware with ToolBook for about 7 years, but I'm a
brand new user to Runtime Revolution.
I'm excited about the cross-platform possiblities. I'm ultimatly looking for
a second development tool and possibly something to switch to for full-time
development.
If anyone can help me with the following concerns, It'd be much appreciated.
1. Are there any examples of large-scale distributions of anything created
with Runtime Revolution? Specifically, I'm looking to see if there are any
"gotcha" distribution issues, say some minor conflict that would pop up on
Windows XP Home with a certain type of video card. The applications I build
get distributed to many thousands so I have to look far down the road. I'm
not asking this question as anything against Runtime Revolution's
stability--it's just that ToolBook is riddled with "gotchas" that have taken
me half a decade to find and workaround. Just want to know if it's a
similiar experience here.
2. Is there any way to dock all of the toolbars in the development
environment to make it more of a one-window application. I"m trying the
program out in Windows, but will also try it out in OSX soon. I understand I
can edit the development-environment stacks, but this is a bit ambitious
since I just got started. :-)
3. Is there such a thing as a "background" or a "master page/stack/card" or
a "shared card" in Runtime Revolution? I'm looking for a way to put
something like a "next" button on this instead of having 200 copies of the
same "next" button on 200 cards.
Thanks in advance for any help provided, John Ballard
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