Re: Super Newbie
Re: Super Newbie
- Subject: Re: Super Newbie
- From: Charles Bouldin <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 09:02:35 -0500
At 5:18 AM -0800 11/5/03, email@hidden wrote:
Message: 5
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 22:51:09 +1100
Subject: Re: Super Newbie
Cc: Cocoa-Dev List <email@hidden>
To: Timothy Johnson <email@hidden>
From: Wade Tregaskis <email@hidden>
Thanks everyone for your help. Another thing I found is REALbasic,
which looks promising for cross platform development. Does anyone in
here recommend its usage, and in what context is it used? Is it mostly
used for RAD and such. I read one article on Apples site where a
developer of meeting software says he uses it to prototype the
interface, but I take it that he then goes back to another method for
real development. I was impressed how Apple took the aqua interface
onto my Windows machine for their release of iTunes. Is there a way to
easily do this, create an app for Windows that is the replica of a Mac
app? I would assume that you would not be able to reuse Cocoa by any
means, that you would have to port it somehow.
Not so long ago you'd start a tremendously one-sided flame war
mentioning RealBasic on this last... I hope for your sake people are
beyond that now. :)
In brief, RealBasic is pretty cool. It gives you an excellent
object-orientated environment and language, hides a lot of irrelevant
details, and lets you produce some spiffy stuff pretty quick. Plus,
it's inherently cross platform in all forms. You won't get the OS X
interface on Windows, because RealSoftware can't be expected to
reproduce all Apple's work - and plus your Windows users probably won't
like the inconsistency.
Indeed, it may still be heresy to speak of RealBasic favorably, but I
will. At this point, RB has a place in the world because the
Windows/Mac compatibility is quite good. I'm developing a simple
cross-platform program with RB, and it is working very well. While
not cocoa by any stretch, it is a reasonable development system and
enforces object-oriented programming in the same natural way that
Hypercard did. I find RB an interesting halfway point between
Hypercard and Cocoa.
Certainly worth a try for beginners and I think it is the best way
available to develop on a Mac and deploy to Windows. At this moment,
RB is saving me from Visual Basic!
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