Pre-Beta for 2.0 for Mac OS

[erik hansen]

--- Ken Ray <kray at sonsothunder.com> wrote:
> > > if you are looking for the classical stable
> > > scripting product - its
> > > here: called MC!
> >
> > could there be an advantage to developing an
> app
> > in RR then running it in MC?
> 
> Two that I can think of - one is that you may
> be able to develop faster in
> Rev because of all the help that the IDE gives
> you (vs. MC where a bunch of
> stuff needs to be done with your own tool or
> through the message box); the
> other is that you may be able to take advantage
> of bug fixes in the engine
> which haven't made their way into Rev yet. For
> example, suppose MC releases
> 2.5 at the same time as Rev 2.0. If MC finds
> and squashes some bugs in 2.5.1
> and it takes a couple of months for RR to
> upgrade to the new engine, you can
> take advantage of the fixes in MC early.
> 
> That said, you also can run into serious
> problems going from Rev to MC as
> well... if you're using add ons (like the XML
> external, database externals,
> etc.) or taking advantage of the main Rev
> scripting library calls (like
> revGoURL), you won't be able to utilize them in
> MC.

thanks, food for thought.

guess i was wondering about stability in
standalones, all of the above considered.

the thing is, it just FEELS better to work in RR.

except that i miss the MC tool that showed all of
the controls grouped by groups.

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erik at erikhansen.org    http://www.erikhansen.org

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