Noob: Amazed yet confused - Dreamcard vs Revolution

[Charles Hartman]

Others can give you an informed opinion -- I can offer one from  
somebody in a position like yours. I'm developing some moderately  
large tutorial stacks that my and my colleagues' students will  
download, along with a Windows or OSX Player. I've experimented  
enough to be confident that Dreamcard is going to work fine for this.  
The only drawback I see (for my purposes so far, and for yours as you  
describe them) is that you need to produce a set of foolproof  
instructions for users that's about two steps longer than it would be  
if one were producing standalones.

The capabilities are otherwise the same, as far as I can tell, except  
for some fairly advanced stuff (commercial database queries for  
example) that -- so far -- I don't think I'll need.

There's the amateur view. Those Who Know will tell you more.

Charles Hartman



On Aug 8, 2005, at 9:19 PM, David Bakody wrote:

> Hello to this amazing group:
>
> I stumbled onto Dreamcard after linking to a forum posting  
> regarding a review of the most recent release of RealBASIC on  
> OSNews.  One thing led to another and now here I am.
> I've been playing with the eval of Dreamcard and am amazed yet  
> confused.  On the one hand, I felt like waxing nostalgic for my old  
> Hypercard days back in the late 1980's, so much so that I fired up  
> an old Quadra 650 (still runs after all these years) and started  
> toying around with Hypercard again to help jog my memory and gain a  
> better understanding of Dreamcard.  In so many ways I lament the  
> things Apple has discarded (OpenDoc, Hypercard, GameSprockets, to  
> name just a few...).
>
> I feel I should note that not only did I search the archives before  
> asking a question, I downloaded and imported the ENTIRE archives  
> into Thunderbird as the archives are THAT good.  The answers I  
> found kinda-sorta answered my question, but I remain a bit unclear...
>
> Here's my question:
> The only difference I can find between Dreamcard and Revolution is  
> that the latter can produce standalone apps, whereas the former  
> requires a player.  Assuming I merely want to develop applications  
> for myself that relate to my practice of real estate / law / etc,  
> is Dreamcard sufficient?  These will be modest applications (lead  
> generation / tracking, client management, simple databases, case  
> management, etc).  Likewise, I envision sharing some of my work  
> product with my peers to run on their own respective workstations  
> (non-commercial, just plain old sharing and love), but I am a bit  
> concerned as to whether or not the "player" will permit me to share  
> my work in a usable manner.  If indeed it does - Dreamcard is an  
> incredible deal.
>
> Apologies in advance if this question has been asked a million times.
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