REALbasic clarifications (was Express to Dreamcard)

[Andre Garzia]

Hey I spoted a spy! Joking! Hi David, welcome to our community.

Yes, your revisions are indeed free. and I didn't tested versions 5.x 
where x is bigger than 2... the last version I tested was 5.2.4

What I disliked about your carbon implementation was that in the first 
releases 4.x it manage to screw my labels, like randomizing the colors 
of some of the letters with no explanation why. Also I used to have 
frequent crashes in the IDE while creating my old iBlog program 
(http://iblog.soapdog.org) you can see it was built with RB 4.5.2, I 
never got to switch to 5.x because all my socket code went to dust 
since you changed your RB code, but that was not a problem, the socket 
class got better indeed.

Before switching to Revolution, back in system 9 I could swear by RB... 
then it came MacOS X. Without the desire to spend money in RB Licenses 
no longer for two reasons: 1) that was a personal choice, I live in 
Brazil, dollar was 4:1 in that time... I made the switch to 
Objective-C/Cocoa. After sometime I evaluated Revolution 1.1, it simply 
worked, it was easy. I could create a full blog client with basic 
XML-RPC in hours, I spend eons on RB to do the same thing and yet on 
the 3.x and 4.x series of RB (and I used it for a very long time...). I 
could not live without it any longer and bought my Revolution Studio 
License for I could cross compile for every platform.

I did not test the 5.5.x branch. My old RB codebase is legacy, I think 
it would not run today... I was very disapointed with 4.x and the first 
carbon releases, they keep crashing and it was weird.

But that's the Rev community mail list, if you want to talk about my 
likes and dislikes of RB please feel welcome to contact me at my mail 
soapdog at mac.com

Now it's more a paradigm shift that keeps me away from REALBasic, I 
just can't live without coding in Transcript, it's so plain easy, and 
my code even run on SGI... I never saw a platform so net-savvy and so 
easy and a community so connected. I don't need that code-compile-debug 
cycle anymore... I can create stacks, cards, control and even code at 
runtime. My software can without any modification run almost everywhere 
and my workflow is now a very pleasant experience, I think that 
Revolution/Metacard bring back the fun of programming that experience 
that I longed again for, I even like doing CRM software in Rev...

Your software introduced me into Programming for the Macintosh, I was a 
Windows user that worked with delphi, the switch was easy and I learned 
much from it, I thank you all for that.

Cheers
andre


On Jul 23, 2004, at 12:13 PM, David Grogono wrote:

> Andre Garzia <soapdog at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> you shouldn't consider RealBasic
>> cause you must pay for upgrades (aka bug fixes)
>
> REAL Software provides free maintenance releases for REAlbasic.  
> Version
> 5.5.3 is close to being released and this will be the third free bug 
> fix
> release for version 5.5.
>
>> also because they carbon implementation is a little lousy...
>
> Please explain what is meant by this.
-- 
Andre Alves Garzia ð 2004
Soap Dog Studios - BRAZIL
http://studio.soapdog.org