we bought realBasic essentially because of his windows building
capabilities and we have thousands of copies of some apps we wrote.
In my experience:
virtual PC gives realistic results with rb built apps, but you shouldn't
trust too much socket behaviour (well, of course, if it works works
well, if it doesn't maybe works on a real winbox).
for realbasic db all is working fine, but sometimes, on both macos and
windows, rb breake the db while crashing. I think this issue is
corrected on latest versions of rb, but having a sort of backup system
is a smart thing to do.
realbasic db is handy for simple tasks, but maybe you should consider
using faster and more reliable (and maybe more expensive too ;-) db
engines for serious database driven applications.
what doesn't work really fine under windows is the UI refresh, more
often on a SDI build. sometimes controls doesn't refresh well, and
version 3 had some problems with canvas controls.
given that, programming for windows with a mac and realbasic is a great
experience, controls and events behave correctly, timers and threads run
smoothly.
for debuggin purposes I use 3 methods:
1. message boxes that says where the code execution is and report some
data
2. Write a log file with
[mytextoutputstream]=[folderitem].appendToTextFile (useful for some
routines like record of file parsing if you write the values too)
3. use the "exception" keyword often
On Friday, July 12, 2002, at 04:03 PM, Sam DeVore wrote:
The things that I am most concerned about are socket behavior and the
RealBASIC DB at this point, but even simple things like menus and ideas
for
debugging. I am a windows newbie. And also things like how realistic
is it
to think that I will be able to get realistic results testing on
different
flavors of virtual pc? Well I guess I will have to just track what I
find
and answers that I get...
Sam D
On 7/11/02 10:30 PM, "REALbasic Network Users Group"
<realbasic-nug at lists dot realsoftware dot com> wrote:
AFAIK, there's no list out there that specifies the caveats of Win32 RB
apps. What are you trying to accomplish? What sort of models are you
thinking of implementing? If you give a little more information on the
topic, we might be able to give you a little more information on what
to
watch out for.
~Aaron
I was wondering if there is a faq or place with a list of things to
consider
when building RB apps for windows. I have just been faced with a
need to
build some existing apps for Windows and was interested in some
"heads up"
and "gotchas"
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