Thanks so much for the input. I checked out Tcl/Tk and it looks like
a nice alternative. I have decided to go with RB - I did some testing
with the database functions and really like the built in MySQL
controls, transaction support and raw SQL flexibility. I am sure Tcl/
Tk has many strengths, but I am really impressed with RB's set of Mac
specific functionality, like spotlight search support, quicktime
media, nice GUI interface and with Geoff's note about the ability to
make Cocoa calls I am sold.
I am sure I will still be learning Cocoa as time wears on, XCode is a
pleasure to use - but RB seems to fit the bill best.
Hi Chris. I of course have a biased opinion. If you care about
cross-platform then REALbasic is the obvious choice. It might also
interest you to know that under the hood, we make calls into the
Cocoa APIs to provide some of REALbasic's Mac functionality and
will no doubt be utilizing Cocoa more and more as time goes on.
Also, with the Declare statement in REALbasic you can make OS API
calls. So if you reach a point where you want to call into Cocoa,
you should be able to do that from REALbasic. This gives you the
best of both worlds.
On Jul 29, 2005, at 3:17 PM, Chris Tracewell wrote:
The points that pull me towards RB is the multi platform authoring
and speed of development. We are mac only, but we may find it
useful to develop apps for our vendors/partners and thus RB seems
to be the best choice. Is porting a Cocoa app to Windoze a huge
undertaking that requires expertise in yet another low level
language like C++, I expect it is.
--
Geoff Perlman
President and CEO
REAL Software, Inc.
