Is RunRev marketed to developers mainly?

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Thomas,

For the most part, I agree with your sympathies and, were I a full- 
time developer, probably even more so. I, too, purchased SC, but  
didn't find that it really offered me things I couldn't get from HC -  
at that time - with a little more effort; something I really enjoyed.  
Hey, I was up to my eye-brows in my own HC externals, and such, at  
that time to the extent of being almost a full-time developer. I, too  
- though reluctantly, work on both platforms these days, but I've  
never actually succumbed to buying a PC. Awkward at times, and always  
feel as if I'm walking on water with XP open - wondering if faith  
alone will keep me afloat, and hating the fact that I still had to buy  
an XP license from M$, but life goes on.

You're probably right, and I too would probably not have considered  
Rev if it were Mac only, though it appears I will probably end up  
using it that way. Thanks for your objectivity.

As a side note, with respect to searching for things - at least on  
Macs - don't forget Spotlight's amazing search capabilities. I've used  
it a number of times to locate specific items in Rev and other stuff.  
Even my drawings where I have notes and on PDFs as well. Of course,  
most of the time, you have to do a double barreled search once you  
have a document open, and not all are as good at that as Adobe's PDFs.

Joe Wilkins

On May 29, 2008, at 8:00 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:

> Joe,
>
> I agree with the initial reaction to Supercard when Hypercard was  
> free. However SC had so much to offer with multiple windows and  
> Color etc. and HC was not being well supported by Apple at that time  
> (the beginning of the end it felt like) that I felt I needed to  
> purchase SC. Then the wait for a Web and/or Windows version of SC  
> and it being passed around between companies and I finally gave up  
> for Director. That was a big disappointment for me. Thank goodness  
> that MC/Revolution stuck around and is what it is.
>
> I disagree about this list being mostly Mac users though. I am a  
> Computer user and prefer Macs but I work on them both side by side  
> and both on my Mac as well. I know there is a lot of heated wars  
> between some users but I for one would not even have considered  
> Revolution if it were Mac only. (my 2 cents on that)
>
> I have been an Enterprise licensee with Revolution since I first  
> found it and have been glad to pay for it. It has changed my life  
> and my future outlook on life (programatically speaking).
>
> Tom McGrath
>
> On May 29, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
>
>> I believe you might say the same for SuperCard. Kind of! My  
>> personal feeling is that when Rev was first released as MetaCard,  
>> perhaps as something else - my memory fails me, we had all become  
>> accustomed to HC - free for all to use; and we resented that  
>> someone was trying to get rich on what we felt should almost be in  
>> the public domain. There were a lot of hurt feelings. And it was  
>> still seen as a Mac only tool. It probably still is. Certainly, the  
>> majority of users on this list appear to be mostly on Macs. In many  
>> cases, here I speak for myself, I wish it were Mac only and we  
>> didn't even have to deal with everyone else. AND, believe it or  
>> not, there is still a lot of combativeness between the two  
>> platforms. Even here - as I'm sure I'll soon be made aware. (smile)
>>
>> My two centavos,
>>
>> Joe Wilkins