"Nicholas Buratovich wrote
If one is serious enough about making a good looking RB app,
plugins and custom controls can be used extensively, but such things
only go so far before you start redoing everything
I'm disappointed, and feeling a bit naive, that people can say this
about RB because I'd not used it extensively enough to notice these
discrepancies. We're focussing more on getting a cross-platform
drawing UI looking good, on our current sizeable RB-based project.
It was the endless need to write lots of code and use plugins to get
a decent UI that led me to abandon 4th Dimension many years ago (and
I was saddened to see when called back to train someone on an
enterprise system I wrote 11 years previously that the current 4D
hasn't moved on that much).
What we need to do on this mailing list is help find the positives
that will justify RS investing time to close this UI believability
gap, rather than beating them over the head about it. What sales
messages, what new markets would support tweaking to fit the (ever
changing) Mac UI target and how can those changes avoid compromising
Windows and Linux targets?
I am hopeful that their increased push to attract more professional
developers will be reflected in fixing these issues, before they
become a problem for me!
--
Andy Dent BSc MACS AACM http://www.oofile.com.au/
OOFILE - Database, Reports, Graphs, GUI for c++ on Mac, Unix & Windows
PP2MFC - PowerPlant->MFC portability
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