Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before

[Stephen King]

Oops sorry - Repeat send this time with subject, forgot to add the subject
steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen King" <st.king42 at ntlworld.com>
To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 6, Issue 89


> Geoff,
>
> This is all good of course but what about those windows media issues
raised
> many times on the list. Here in the UK, the windows/mac balance is
probably
> 95%/5%. Certainly everything I build for school use and club use is
Windows.
>
> I bought my Rev partly on its multimedia and cross platform capability  -
> then find, like many others that Rev when targetted for windows doesn't
> properly support native windows files (Wav/AVIs) except in a very limited
> form and many basic features are not available. AVI and WAV is a big part
of
> multimedia in the windows environment. It is clear from recent posts that
> users are still trying to find workarounds for progress bars etc playing
> AVIs in windows. And as for SAPI - I seem to remember speech was a
specific
> feature of Rev 2, and Win XP was hardly new when Rev 2 came out.
> Personally, I don't feel it is valid to claim these features which really
> require third party support - its a bit like claiming distribution in a
> compressed format without providing a self decompression because a win XP
> target machine has a decompressor built in - doesn't help the users of 98,
> 95 etc.
> As has been mentioned  many times on the list, these sort of users do not
> have the knowledge or admin rights to download QT or SAPI4 to their
> machines.
> And the 'cell' fields - do they really have the functionality suggested?
>
> So I guess my question would be - are these new features to be paid for
> (again, in my view) or are they bug fixes?
>
> To end on a positive though, like all the others on the list I am still
very
> impressed with what rev allows me to do in a very short time and see these
> as important feature limitations to me, but also only a small subset of
what
> Rev does very well. As I don't use web, XML, Mac build etc type features
and
> it is just unfortunate for me, this small subset is actually a large part
of
> what I use it for, so for me it is a big blocker.
>
> Cheers
> Steve
>
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 16:02:46 -0800
> > From: Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com>
> > Subject: Re: Upgrade version and pricing [was] Re: Fix it before
> > moving ahead
> > To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> > Message-ID: <EC9BF8EA-754A-11D8-8AEC-003065683ECC at inspiredlogic.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
> >
> > On Mar 12, 2004, at 5:24 AM, Frank Leahy wrote:
> >
> > > Sounds like 2.2 might be more like a 2.1.5.
> >
> > 2.2 will include:
> >   -- Native look and feel for Windows XP
> >   -- Support for OS X Panther appearance changes (metal groups, for
> > example)
> >   -- A new, vastly improved, distribution builder
> >   -- Support for the full range of Windows icons
> >   -- Improved database linked controls
> >   -- Numerous bug fixes and other feature enhancements
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Geoff Canyon
> > gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com
> >
>