RUNREV 2.6 DOESN'T WORK

[MisterX]

by "their lousy look and feel " i meant linux's suse 9
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Not Rev's.

Surely this was my fault - im not experienced in linux... 
My metacard (then) tests on linux worked fine. 

cheers
Xav

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of MisterX
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 17:47
> To: 'How to use Revolution'
> Subject: RE: RUNREV 2.6 DOESN'T WORK
> 
> 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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