Mac Classic Apps Run Under OS X but Not On Native Classic

[Terry Judd]

On 10/09/2004, at 3:22 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com 
wrote:

> From: "Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <revolution at jaedworks.com>
> Date: 10 September 2004 3:56:50 AM
> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Re: Mac Classic Apps Run Under OS X but Not On Native Classic
> Reply-To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>
> Good point. I agree.
>
> (Although now I'm wondering whether there should be a separate OS 
> function, with the "platform" becoming simplified -- Mac, Windows, or 
> Unix -- and the "OS" being more specific, e.g. "OSX" or "Classic" or 
> "MacOS", "Win95" or "Win2000" or "WinXP", or the various Unix flavors, 
> etc. Stop me before I rewrite syntax again! ;-)

Jeanne, I actually like the idea of separate platform and flavours 
functions along the lines you suggest above. I've been implementing 
something very similar to this for a 'user-agent' routine I've 
incorporated in a cross-tool (Director/Flash/Revolution) script library 
I'm working on.

Cheers,

Terry...

Dr Terry Judd
Lecturer in Educational Technology (Design)
Biomedical Multimedia Unit
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences
The University of Melbourne