RUNREV 2.6 DOESN'T WORK

[MisterX]

Damien

I agree with you that Rev is very "Mac" only quality oriented and 
the other platforms' appearance manager (out of macs) is just useless.

There's GTK and there's gnome. I've run Metacard on suse 9 with both
installed and dont remember having problems. I may ditch Windows any
day and join you in the rant but generally Rev works... If not, make 
a critical or blocker bug - it MAY get some attention... ;)

Im sure someone in RunRev will come to the rescue ;) They are good people
and now should be sober from the release celebration and jubilation.

There's new features and many fixes in every runrev release and 
contrary to many unix products they usually fare quite well on Mac
and a bit less on PCs. I stopped unix because of their lousy look and
feel but it doesn't mean they dont work...

I think there's more international clients like you and me that would
like to see "correct" international and diacritical text handling (not
to mention justification, leading and kerning or even a simple field
rotation feature. But who knows where RunRev picks their priorities.

It sure dont come from the Unix or Windows professional needs that many
windows and clients need compared to a 10% PC/developpers' population eager
for eye candy. But RunRev is a multimedia tool with excellent text list or
database or anything manipulation tool. 

Meanwhile, rev is still the best i know on windows "that resembles HyperCard
and MacOS or my own OS in my own hands." I make my own appearances (without
the "closed" appearance feature that completely missed the "theme" bandwagon
10 years ago...). That's lame imoho. Rev prefers building mac only features
instead of fixing their cross platform problems (so many i wont mention them
- Kevin should working strictly on a PC to feel how hostile it can be...

I would gladly enjoy COM objects in rev applications more than MacOS eye
candy... Wouldn't that be a more business empowering feature? I wonder where
they pull their resources for such trivial non-practical features... But
hey, i could go on for hours! C'est la vie...

But Rev, MC works and rocks!!! A bit less than other tools but without the
development overhead and practically none of the limits (cough cough)...

cheers
Xavier ;)
http://monsieurx.com - Objects on the rocks, shaken not stirred


> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Damien Girard
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 16:59
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: RUNREV 2.6 DOESN'T WORK
> 
> Richard Gaskin a écrit :
> 
> > Damien Girard wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I think I will become crazy, but I wait, I am waiting a Runtime 
> >> Revolution that WORK under linux.
> >>
> >> Revolution 2.2 work but are bugged with new desktop 
> manager (Gnome, 
> >> KDE), Revolution 2.5 and 2.5.1 doesn't work at all with 
> the GTK+ Look 
> >> and feel and Revolution 2.6 doesn't work also.
> >>
> >> I have got this bug when I want to start Revolution :
> >>
> >> The runrev loader window is showed "Revolution 2.6", and 
> nothing else 
> >> is done, I have got only at the bottom right of this 
> window "Loading 
> >> standard Icons..."
> >>
> >> So, I just want a Runrev that WORK under linux.
> >
> >
> > It'll be interesting to read what the lead engineer, Mark 
> Waddingham, 
> > can offer here.  It's my understanding that his main 
> machine is Linux, 
> > so I know they're highly motivated to have it work as well 
> there as on 
> > other platforms.
> >
> > FWIW, while I don't spent a lot of time with Linux when I 
> have run Rev 
> > it's worked well, so I suspect the issues you're seeing are either 
> > related to the installation and/or will be short-lived.
> >
> > --
> >  Richard Gaskin
> >  Fourth World Media Corporation
> >  __________________________________________________
> >  Rev tools and more: http://www.fourthworld.com/rev 
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> Runrev doesn't work, it work only in Emulated Look and feel, 
> there aren't all font under linux, the windowboundingrect are 
> wrong, french special characters doesn't work ("éùàç...").
> And runrev doesn't start if I set good library
> (libgdk-x11...,libgtk-x11...,libgobject) for have the GTK 
> look and feel.
> 
> The GTK look and feel is good, but he doesn't work. I have 
> tryed with 3 distrobutions, and never I had a Revolution that work.
> 
> I understand, there aren't a lot of user of Runrev under 
> linux, but why ? Because runrev isn't the best under linux. 
> (Under MacOS X, yes, Revolution is very great)
> 
> And I say only the true. Maybe, Runrev doesn't support 
> something in a french linux ?
> 
> (Sorry about my english, I'm French)
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