Hello Richard:
Thanks for your comments. I appreciate you enthusiasm. R is certainly
interesting. But see below.
I take you point about resources being Mac only. And it's useful to
know I can do a batch convert of "cicn" resources. I'll look into
Graphic Converter.
I remarked:
> > Is Revolution a new sort of game, I wonder? One is invited to pay
>300 dollars
> > and then spends a year or so trying to guess how it works.
And you replied:
>Yes, developing software requires some effort. The cool thing about Rev is
>that the effort required for making multi-platform applications is probably
>something like 0.01% of what would be required using just about any other
>system.
>
>Another cool thing about Rev is the documentation.
You rather missed the point of my remark. I'm aware of the need for
effort. However, I do begrudge unnecessary effort which is the result
of inadequate documentation. The fact is the evaluation version of RR
is badly documented. In order to evaluate the IDE properly I need to
be able to understand it and use it. That's difficult if there is no
detailed documentation and coding is restricted to 10 lines. (One
might almost think RR didn't welcome too close a scrutiny by a
prospective purchaser).
Past experience has taught me to be cautious. On a number of
occasions I've spent months on software that turned out to be buggy
and which eventually bit the dust. Symantec's VisualCafe for Mac, the
Java IDE, was a good example. I've experienced others. So it makes
sense to be sure of how capable an application is before one devotes
much time to it.
Kevin Miller remarked to me in a personal eMail that RR is,
"...aiming more at professional developers that hobbyists". All the
more reason it seems to me to supply adequate documentation. I take
it one gets rather more comprehensive documentation with the
unrestricted version?
DW
