Questions about experiences

[Graham Samuel]

On Monday, November 10, 2003 4:24 PM, Björnke von Gierke 
[mailto:bvg at mac.com] wrote:

>Hello,
>I am in the process of writing an article about runrev, and would like
>to ask you about two things:
>
>Did you experience that you wanted to make a project, but where unable
>to do it with runrev? For example because a technology was not
>supported, not fast enough or because it was otherwise not up to the
>task.

Well, I am a great fan of RunRev but I have been frustrated by one or two 
bugs (or apparent bugs) which I have not yet found workarounds for. I had 
some difficulty with simple QuickTime movies which didn't perform quite as 
I expected. I abandoned these for animated GIFs and have had some 
difficulty with them too. I guess what I'm saying is that RunRev will 
theoretically do everything I've ever wanted to do, but in practical terms 
sometimes it's hard to get everything to work.

I am also very sympathetic to Richard Gaskin's remarks about printing, and 
have my own specific grumbles. I find it extraordinary that I still can't 
know exactly what the printable area is for the combination of printer and 
media that the user has chosen (I'm not talking about the page size, but 
about the margins of the area within the page where the printing engine can 
actually make a mark). I had to abandon part of a development because of 
this limitation, and the workaround doesn't look so good to the user as I 
would like. Imagine any form of printout where you could allow the user to 
set margins but wouldn't be able to issue a warning if the printing would 
be clipped. (When I grumbled about this some time ago, Scott Raney 
intervened to say that it wasn't possible to provide this info on all 
platforms. I still can't understand how this can be so when other apps seem 
to be able to get this information readily).


>DId you realise any projects that you did not think that it would be
>possible to do with runrev?

Not so far - but I am very impressed with the range of capabilities 
offered, so I expect to be surprised in the future.

Finally, I would like to say that I cannot see any alternative at all for 
cross-platform development for someone like me (programming background 
going back a long way but the only acquaintance with development on modern 
OSs being through X-talk). So I couldn't do ANY projects which need to be 
delivered on both Mac and Windows if it wasn't for RunRev.

Graham


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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK & France