why MetaCard?
Shari
gogypsy at bellsouth.net
Mon Jan 7 09:02:01 EST 2002
>RunRev has been getting all the buzz, it has
>extensive documentation, so why do some
>developers prefer MetaCard?
I used both before making the choice. I was told that both programs
used the same engine, so both could do the same things. Both had the
same capability.
RunRev had a lot of added features regarding the programming
environment. A message box that allowed multiple lines. A control
browser that let you sort the data in different ways. Programming
shortcuts. A better help system.
But the underlying ability, as far as I was told, was the same in
both programs. Whatever you could make one do, you could make the
other do.
It was a tough choice, as RunRev did have so many more features that
made programming easier. But for me, RunRev was very unstable. It
crashed and burned so many times in a single day, and whatever work
hadn't been saved yet went poof. Saving was required literally after
every single change, every added word. I decided that the features
were not worth the crashes. It froze constantly, requiring a hard
restart of my computer. That sucks a lot of time, plus it's
something I try to avoid having to do. Surely it can't be good to do
that several times a day.
As I create programs that I distribute, I have to have an environment
that I can trust. If it crashes and burns for me, no doubt it will
do that to the people who use my programs, and that is not acceptable.
So I chose Metacard.
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