Rev state of play (was: no subject)

[FlexibleLearning]

Welcome back, Alain!

Jacque has pointed you in the right direction, but I'd like to add a word on
the revWeb plugin for 'revlet' apps... It has achieved proof of concept
stage, but we are all waiting for the final release of 4.5 for a
commercially solid technology.

I have at least one client champing at the bit for it. The main issue for us
has been the inability to ensure that the most recent version of the plugin
is installed, and un-installing currently requires manual intervention. This
is the show-stopper. Window layering, mouse and cursor issues, trivial
things like that, also have to be addressed. BUT, once done this is going to
be (almost) as revolutionary as RevMobile, and certainly for
dyed-in-the-wool-dont-want-or-need-an-android-iphone-gimme-a-break types
like me.

:)

/H



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From: Alain Farmer <alain_farmer at yahoo.com>
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Hello.  :)

I have been using MetaCard 2.5 for over a decade now, and, with some free
time on my hands, I was wondering what RunRev was up to these days. I must
say.. I am impressed! Particularly with all of the new [web] features:

* save stack as revlet and deploy-to-web ;
* free downloadable plugin for revlets ;
* free 'player' of stacks (eg RevMedia) ;
* part to display/manage genuine tables ;
* interact with mySQL databases ;
* rev based web hosting ...

Way to go!  :-)

But how come I haven't heard much/any news about these new [web] features?
>From all of you mc/rev users, I mean. Do these features really deliver [as
promised]? Are Revlets better (perform better) than java-Applets? Or Flash
for that matter? Can a revlet write to the user's disk??

Do the revlets do everything a stack can? Are the revlets limited in some
way? Do they require a server-side process[es] - CGI, AJAX, or otherwise -
to do certain things? If so: basic things? or just extraordinary things?

Any comments on this, or any of the other aforementionned features, would be
GREATLY appreciated. :-)

Alain

P.S.: Is this the correct list for this inquiry?




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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:24:11 -0500
From: "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
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Alain Farmer wrote:
> Hello.  :)
>
> I have been using MetaCard 2.5 for over a decade now, and, with some free
time on my hands, I was wondering what RunRev was up to these days. I must
say.. I am impressed! Particularly with all of the new [web] features:
>
> * save stack as revlet and deploy-to-web ;
> * free downloadable plugin for revlets ;
> * free 'player' of stacks (eg RevMedia) ;
> * part to display/manage genuine tables ;
> * interact with mySQL databases ;
> * rev based web hosting ...
>
> Way to go!  :-)
>
> But how come I haven't heard much/any news about these new [web] features?
>From all of you mc/rev users, I mean. Do these features really deliver [as
promised]? Are Revlets better (perform better) than java-Applets? Or Flash
for that matter? Can a revlet write to the user's disk??
>
> Do the revlets do everything a stack can? Are the revlets limited in some
way? Do they require a server-side process[es] - CGI, AJAX, or otherwise -
to do certain things? If so: basic things? or just extraordinary things?
>
> Any comments on this, or any of the other aforementionned features, would
be GREATLY appreciated. :-)
>
> Alain
>
> P.S.: Is this the correct list for this inquiry?

It's all happening over on the Rev list. This one is mostly just to
discuss the MC IDE.

I think you'll find everything you want to know if you search the list
archives: <http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ide.revolution.user>

You can join the Rev list here:
<http://www.runrev.com/developers/community/>

Info about revserver and revWeb are in the lessons near the top of this
page: <http://lessons.runrev.com>. Basically there are two new web
technologies: one is client-side (revWeb plugin) and the other is
server-side (RevServer.) They are also working on RevMobile to allow
deployment to Android phones.

--
Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com


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