Submitting a Rave to balance a Rant

[David Burgun]

Yep! That's what's great about RunRev all right and why I love it. I 
did amost exactly the same thing this week, massively productive. The 
problem is that all this spoilled when you hit one of these horrible 
IDE/Engine/Whatever problems! It has taken me the best part of a day 
trying to the simplest of things.

I suppose what makes it worse is if you and a task to do and you've 
coded in the environment before you can make a good estimate of how 
long it will take to finish. But if you hit one of these No-Way-Out 
problems all your estimates go out the window.

For instance, if I had coded this in C/C++ using a GUI framework, I 
would have scheduled more time, BUT I would be 100% certain that I 
wouldn't have spent a day making a Menu work!!!! The point I am 
making is that no one likes to feel their time is being wasted, by 
that I mean I would rather spend 7 days working productivly on a 
C/C++ app, then 2 days coding a runrev app and 1 day making a menu 
work!

All the Best
Dave

>One of the things I love about Rev is the short development time.
>Started this morning to do a knock off of  a customer spreadsheet, fairly
>simple, but will need to add Rev functionality later
>Made 20 fields to mimic columns, added formatting, and some calc loops,
>array building, filtering, legend, sub stack,
>THEN...
>on mouseDoubleUp
>   put the ticks into startt --ticks are 1/60 of a second
>...
>set the lockscreen to true
>get values from a sub stack
>import small tab data file
>run 8 functions to get/set field values and sizes
>do interface tidy routines
>...
>   put "elapsed = " & (the ticks - startt) & " ticks" into msg
>end mouseDoubleUp
>
>RESULT        "elapsed = 0 ticks" or "elapsed = 1 ticks"
>
>150 lines of Transcript, 9 short repeat loops
>  [ Mac OSX, Tiger 10.4.2, Rev 2.6.1, G5 dual 2.0 GHz]
>
>This should impress my client on Friday.
>4 hours to build a working prototype.
>Oh, and I will take about a minute to compile this as an exe for his XP
>machine.
>
>Jim Ault
>Las Vegas
>
>Happy Thanksgiving, for those who celebrate!
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