Rev not Cocoa-enough??

[Judy Perry]

Andre,

Thanks for that succinct explanation.

I KNEW I needed to clap my trap until hearing from my betters ;-)

Perhaps the more knowledgeable of you all could weigh in...

Thanks!

Judy

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Andre Garzia <andre at andregarzia.com> wrote:
> Judy,
>
> yes and no...
>
> Rev applications can't access some stuff that Cocoa applications can.
> For example, our field object is not the cocoa framework field object,
> we can't have those nice toolbars either... We can't tap the full
> cocoalicious things because we'd loose the cross platorm features. The
> field object for example needs to behave the same in all platforms, so
> in the end, it can't take advantage of all things cocoa frameworks
> deliver.
>
> Yes our applications are bundles and they do call OS and Cocoa
> frameworks, but they are not as Native as an XCode + Interface builder
> application is. If you want to answer that thread, you can point to
> the write once, deploy anywhere nature of Revolution, but you can't
> tell that you can have eveything a cocoa app can have because you
> actually can't.
>
> What the RunRev team delivers is the best of both worlds, it is as
> cocoa as it can be while mantaining cross platorm and feature
> completeness.
>
> Cheers
> andre
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Judy Perry
> <katheryn.swynford at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was just reviewing comments on the macNN Rev thread and came upon this one:
>>
>> "No cross-platform framework can create an app on the Mac that feels
>> as native or as usable as a Cocoa app, and the lack of attention to
>> detail shows"
>>
>> What?  Am I missing something?  I had thought that Rev made direct
>> calls to the OS/other abstract geeky things I don't currently need to
>> know about so that the machine on which the Rev app was deployed drew
>> native OS controls rather than the Rev engine emulating them.
>>
>> Is this not the case?
>>
>> Thought that I'd check before I made an idiot of myself for the
>> millionth time...
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Judy
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