dump newbie image questiosn

[Jon]

Mark:

I have no interest in writing DLLs for every platform.  The whole reason 
I am trying to learn Rev is to avoid this!

Delphi can create DLLs.  If it worked on the Mac, I wouldn't be here at 
all.  Delphi (Kylix) already runs on Linux...

The "hard" part of my image viewer is already done: I've figured out all 
of the algorithms.  All I have to do is translate them into Rev and I'm 
cross-platform.  Too bad it's so slow.

Decades ago, when cross-platform compatibility using interpreters was 
also interesting, there was a system called the p-System.  It predated 
the Apple entirely.  In that system, there was a "native code" pragma 
that allowed one to force small parts of the code to be optimized.  Such 
a facility in Rev would be very powerful.  Not trivial, and perhaps not 
even possible, but powerful.

:)

Jon


Mark Wieder wrote:

>Jon-
>
>Sunday, June 5, 2005, 8:00:20 PM, Jacque wrote:
>
>JLG> I went to your web page and read up on you. ;) Now that I've looked at
>JLG> it, I agree, your viewer is not a standard viewer so I retract my other
>
>Well, I got intrigued and I look in on things, too. I have to agree
>with Jacque here - You can certainly do your image viewer in runrev,
>but doing it in Transcript is going to be much too slow. You're going
>to have to do your image processing in an external DLL for speed.
>That's not only doable, but there's an example in the external sdk for
>image processing.
>
>However... it's going to complicate any plans you have for
>cross-platform compatibility unless you write an external library for
>each operating system you want to target. It's also going to
>complicate your life a bit since you'll no doubt have to write this in
>C. I don't know for sure about creating DLLs in Delphi, but I know
>that Borland's C++ Builder can't create the proper format - you just
>don't have enough control over the build options.
>
>Sheesh - can't you start off with a *simple* project when you're
>learning a new language and development environment? You're as bad as
>I am...
>
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