Mark Weider wrote: "Revolution, of course, works fine on (K)Ubuntu, it's just a couple of major versions behind the times..."
I use RunRev on a full-time basis running content delivery and reinforcement programs - a posh way of saying EFL software for Primary Kids - on Pentium 3s running Ubuntu - super. BUT! because movieClip delivery with RR is dependent on Quicktime, it is effectively a no-go area on Ubuntu. I use silly, little animated GIFs to entertain the tinies; but they "suck" RAM in a very bad way; and, obviously, you cannot control them in the same 'fine-grained' way you can using QT on Mac OS or Windows. As a result, EFL video segments I use with adult student have to be delivered by RealPlayer; and having video segments that have to be accessed externally to the main teaching program means a lot of teaching time wasted helping busy people who have more important things going on in their lives than having to negotiate themselves round the intricacies of the fairly top-heavy "modern GUI" (see my Master's thesis for further abusive comments on that topic). Until Runtime Revolution can produce a home-grown component for movie-file delivery on Linux it will not get as far as it should in that GROWING SECTOR. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson ____________________________________________________________ A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. ____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ What kind of emailer are you? Find out today - get a free analysis of your email personality. Take the quiz at the Yahoo! Mail Championship. http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://mail.yahoo.net/uk _______________________________________________ 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