On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:34:12 +0000, Simon HARPER wrote: > Hi there, > > While I understand this may be heresy, how does Revolution stack up > to RealBasic, especially when it comes to thinks like richness of the > interface (such as hierarchical Listboxs)?
It's not heresy, it's a reasonable question. :-) However it's a question that could take a long time to answer, depending on how specific you want a comparison. They both have their strengths and weaknesses, and at one time a member of this list (Geoff Canyon) wrote up a comparison between the two, but this was several versions ago for both products, so only a portion of that treatise is relevant anymore. However, my opinion is that in relation to the "richness of the interface", it's a tie. RealBasic has more built in interface objects than Rev, but Rev has more control over its interface objects than RealBasic. So in my opinion for this specific issue, it's a toss-up. Of course you can create your own custom objects in both programs to fill any gaps. But the power of Revolution isn't centered in the expansiveness of its built-in controls; it's in the language itself. If you are interested, I wrote an unpublished paper that walked through the RealBasic tutorial document, examined it, and compared it with how you'd do things in Revolution. As an overview, in about 80% of the code comparisons, Revolution took less lines of code to accomplish the same task than did RealBasic. If you're interested in having a look, contact me offlist. There is (obviously) a lot more to compare the two products, but hopefully this will help get you started... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ _______________________________________________ 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