Pre-Fab Profile Set?

[Dan Shafer]

I've been doing a lot of thinking and exploring the issue of code/ 
component reuse in Rev the last week or so. Yeah, I know; I really  
need to get out more.

It occurred to me that Profiles, which are designed to deal with the  
need for various versions of a stack/app in different languages and  
with different OS deployments, are probably the "right" (i.e., Rev- 
preferred) way to deal with the few but sticky cross-platform issues  
we face all the time such as fonts. Then it occurred to me to wonder  
if anyone has written a sort of pre-fab set of profiles that could be  
integrated into a Rev app so that the fonts, field spacing and other  
issues that crop up from time to time would be handled semi- 
automagically at runtime.

Has anyone done such a thing? Any ideas for approaching this? Anyone  
want to offer to provide something like this? I don't have a current  
need for it but it seems to me that it could almost become a  
requisite part of any new app I write that's destined for multi- 
platform deployment.




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