Revolution vs. MetaCard

[Pierre Sahores]

Sarah a écrit :
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> There are many people on this list more qualified than me to answer
> this one, but I'll make the first attempt and they can all jump in when
> I get it wrong :-)
> 
> Basically, Revolution IS Metacard but with a different front-end plus
> some added features. Revolution runs on the Metacard engine, so
> anything MC can do, Rev can do too (unless it is something that only
> appears in the latest version of MC - Rev is sometimes a version
> behind).
> 
> My recommendation would be to download both starter kits, have a go at
> the tutorials and see which one feels more comfortable. For me,
> Metacard had the power but didn't operate in a way I could relate to.
> Rev came along and I found that it suited me very well, so I chose Rev,
> but I realise this is just a personal preference. There have been some
> reports of Metacard being more stable, but most of Rev's instability is
> in the development environment. Compiled apps are extremely stable.
> 
> I can't help you with the database query. I know Rev has a lot of
> features for accessing various forms of external database, but I don't
> know how much of that is in MetaCard too.
> 
> Cheers,
> Sarah
> 
> On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 02:22  am, Chris Sheffield wrote:
> 
> > My company is currently looking at several development
> > tools to use for developing a reading comprehension
> > program for elementary age students.  The program
> > consists of several levels of stories that the student
> > must interact with in different ways.  There is also a
> > teacher management portion that the teachers use to
> > administer tests and track student progress throughout
> > the course.  A full reporting system is a must.
> >
> > Anyway, I have been seriously looking at Revolution,
> > as I'm sure it would do the job for us, but then I
> > heard mention of MetaCard, which sounds like almost
> > exactly the same thing.  So my question is, what's the
> > differency between the two?  Is one better than the
> > other?  Does someone have something that compares the
> > two?  Maybe a white paper or something like that?  Is
> > one easier to use than the other?  How about database
> > access?
> >
> > I would appreciate any feedback from anyone.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Chris Sheffield
> > Read Naturally
> >
> > P.S.  For a peak at what we're wanting to do, go to
> > www.readnaturally.com.  The software is currently done
> > in Macromedia Authorware.
> >
> >

Just an add-one about using MC/REV to access RDBMS,

To see a working example on how to link Metacard/Revolution to
PostgreSQL, just read the great and detailled Sadhu's tutorial at
<ftp://crdp.intereduc.net/howto.html>.

-- 
Cordialement, Pierre Sahores

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