runrev 4.0 - kudos and a gripe

[Richmond Mathewson]

Éric Miclo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It is not the will to duplicate programs but to be able to have access 
> to such basic features as paragraph level text formating.

Now THAT does make a lot of sense.

> I don't know why it should be something so out of this world to add it.

An old chestnut that has been chewed over before . . .
>
> Drop shadows are thrown in and I don't think anybody wants to 
> duplicate Photoshop.
>
> If I would have to vote for text field enhancement or drop shadow, the 
> first one would be far more usefull to me.
>
> Take a look at:
>
> http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=2194
>
> http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=4944
>
> Best,
>
> ÉrIC Miclo
>
> Le 28 juin 09 à 10:32, Richmond Mathewson a écrit :
>
>>
>> Why on earth would you want to spend time duplicating programs like 
>> WordPad or TextEdit?
>>
>> The place is swimming with Text Editors!  And they get rather 
>> repetitive and boring after
>> the first 258.  :)
>>
>> This is similar to complaining that you cannot makes bricks with 
>> sand: get over it,
>> the Egyptians did it with mud 6000 years ago - and its never been 
>> bettered!
>>
>> Admittedly the drop-shadows, while being 'sexy' could easily be 
>> run-up in
>> GIMP or "its commercial rival". The webby-thing, as far as I am 
>> concerned,
>> is a quantum leap, and a "new text field" will just have to wait; 
>> after all we
>> have reasonably respectable text fields already.
>>
>> "you can make any kind of application in runrev" is the usual 
>> commercial hype;
>> however you can have a jolly good stab at it with Runtime Revolution 
>> with an
>> extremely approachable interface.
>>
>> If Text-Editors really "tickle your prawns" I have a whole series of 
>> stacks
>> 'lying around' on my hard drives dealing with all sorts of aspects of 
>> text
>> importing, formatting, editing and exporting (frankly couldn't see much
>> point in knitting them together for . . . another text editor) which 
>> I can bung
>> together in a zip file and send them to you so you can curse my name 
>> forever
>> as you try to assemble them into text editor "Number 259".
>>
>> Shao Sean wrote:
>>> kudos
>>> - web plugin
>>> - server-side scripting (and maybe some day it will be released to 
>>> the public)
>>> - photoshop-like effects
>>>
>>> while i did think that the real-time drop shadow and other 
>>> Photoshop-like effects were nifty I do not see why they were added 
>>> over a feature like a new text field.. during the webinar it was 
>>> mentioned that "you can make any kind of application in runrev" but 
>>> the fact that one can not even duplicate WordPad or TextEdit is kind 
>>> of sad..
>>>
>>> i do like the new logo though ^_^
>>>
>>> -Sean
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