Demo Show Stopper - Save File Dialog

Brian Yennie briany at qldlearning.com
Tue Apr 27 01:11:44 EDT 2004


> Ah.  Finally my point.  The difference is or was (with Metacard or 
> hypercard or other Xtalks) that standalones *were not* the assumed end 
> result.  Rather, the point is/was to produce *stacks*.  IDEs that fail 
> to function or require standalones to provide full functionality 
> violate the whole premise of Xtalks.  Unfortunately, *unlike 
> Metacard*, RR suffers from exactly that disability, which is why a 
> very tiny minority of us prefer the Metacard IDE.  Contrary to the 
> hype, it is not *just* a difference in IDEs, but a true difference in 
> philosophy.
>
> That said, *if* your point in using RR is to develop standalones, I 
> fail to understand the complaint.  Yes it doesn't dance well, but like 
> the dancing bear, one should be impressed that the IDE dances at all.

Fair enough... I guess my question would be- without a "player" 
application, does ANYONE distribute stacks and not standalones to a 
paying client that would care about the IDE issues in this thread? My 
(perhaps naive) assumption is that either your finished product goes to 
a client that doesn't want or need a development environment with it, 
or else you must be using it in a suitable environment where minor IDE 
eccentrics wouldn't be a big deal...

- Brian



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