My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

[Luis]

I had a need for audio, Rev had a 'problem' with it, wasn't  
'there' (read 'usable'!) and canned the project.

Cheers,

Luis.


On 11 Mar 2009, at 18:45, Judy Perry wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Richard Gaskin  
> <ambassador at fourthworld.com
>> wrote:
>
>> Judy wrote:
>>
>>> But for how many years have we all bought, and CONTINUE to buy  
>>> into the
>>> rationale that 'it can't be done on Windows"?
>>>
>>
>> Just to clarify, I'm not hearing anyone saying that it's  
>> definitely not
>> possible on Windows today.
>
>
> --Really?  'Cause I could swear that I just heard Jacque say it  
> maybe wasn't
> so easy... implying not so possible.   And I didn't see ANYBODY  
> other than
> Scott Rossi say otherwise.  And this isn't a dig against anyone.
>
> --Here's the thing:  Some people here don't really give a flying  
> fig about
> audio handling because they don't need it. I get that. I'll wager  
> you don't
> need it even though you publicly and honorably support the third-party
> development of an external to support it.  I'll go further and  
> wager that
> anybody who's arguing against the implementation of sound channels and
> scripted sound do so because *they don't need it*.  They want  
> regex.  Or
> multiple-dimension arrays (for which I have myself pushed, even  
> though since
> their introduction I've not used them once).  Or whatever. I could  
> probably
> name a long list of people for whom that's the case; probably nearly
> identical with the list of people for whom image-handling isn't  
> terribly
> important, the same people who privately grumble that Rev now  
> supports alpha
> transparency channels and image rotation (sorta, kinda) and  
> gradients and
> windowshapes and the like.  These are probably the people want to  
> do data
> processing and that's it; or they want to make the next great word  
> processor
> and that's it...
>
> --Me personally?  I couldn't give a flying fig whether or not  
> diacriticals
> can be handled in the script editor as my language doesn't require  
> them.  I
> don't need them; why should I care?  But, in truth, that doesn't  
> mean I'm
> willing to sit by idly when other Rev users have a real problem  
> that affects
> their use of the product.  I support other users and their problems  
> and hope
> that the feeling is mutual.  I don't personally need unicode either.
>  Handcount, anyone?  Yet I still would urge the company to make their
> product unicode-compliant.
>
> --Not having modern audio handling capacity is likely costing the  
> company
> users.
>
> Judy
> http://revined.blogspot.com
>
>>
>>
>>
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