REALBasic vs Revolution (Michael Kann)

[Lynn Fredricks]

> Thanks for all the input.  As usual, sounds like it comes 
> down to a matter of the application and personal preferences. 
>  I've spent perhaps 30 minutes looking over Real Studio and 
> what has caught my eye so far is the report writer, as 
> previously mentioned, what looks like very well organised 
> documentation (which for me is a major problem area in 
> Revolution), and IDE that feels more comfortable to me, and 
> at first glance, functionality that is at least equivalent to 
> Revolution.  Small things catch my eye, like placing controls 
> on a tabbed control automatically makes them 
> visible/invisible when a tab is clicked on without having to 
> mess with groups as in Revolution.
> 
> Lynn, you mentioned several third party report writers for 
> Rev.  I'm aware of Quartum but could you point me to any 
> others?  The lack of built-in report writing capabilities in 
> Rev is a major issue for me.

Paradigma Software sells Valentina for Revolution, and Valentina Reports for
Revolution (we also sell versions for REALbasic as well) -
http://www.valentina-db.com. You build reports in Valentina Studio Pro, then
save the reports as projects. Those projects can work with the Reports
runtime.

Best regards,

Lynn Fredricks
President
Paradigma Software
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

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