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Andy Dent wrote:
> In article <z-2dnR7vtdSnjf7fRVn-ig@comcast.com>,
>  Scott Wyatt <tameri@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I want something easier than C++ and more powerful than 
>>REALbasic.
> 
> 
> erm, what's so weak about REALbasic (comments only valid since the new 
> compiler in 5.5)?

I have posted to the RB mailing list quite a few things that aren't up 
to snuff in RB... from the lack of an RTF (or HTML) edit field, to 
problems with fonts in the EditFied (which is more a text field, than an 
edit field). Grids are weak -- very weak -- when compared to VB or 
Delphi. (Even the Einhugur grids are weak.)

We have learned that part of the issue with "listbox" grids is the way 
they are populated. They first convert (slowly) contents of the grid to 
strings. One trick you can code is to do any conversions yourself before 
populating rows. Another trick is to count records, create the rows, 
then populate the data... but what a pain when MySQL's record count 
isn't working properly in RB. Oh, and RB doesn't support the new MySQL 
4.1/5.0 passwords -- which I do have to use on the server for other apps.

RB is not as powerful as it should be for a 5.5 or 6.0 release. That's 
my view -- and one reason for migrating to Cocoa in the coming months.

It's decent place to prototype. It is good for small apps. You could 
never create an "Office" level application in RB, and certainly not 
something like Photoshop. I can get that detailed in CW or Cocoa.

Porting a large enterprise application from PC to Mac, we had to lose 
features to use RB. I want those features in my next revision of the Mac 
product. It was the price we paid for moving from Delphi on the PC to RB 
on the Mac... I miss the huge number of controls I used. If you look 
through the RB list, you'll see what I think the issues are.

I've used CW 8.x, but not the 9.x release. One reason was pondering a 
move to Cocoa and trying to decide if the Mac Dev tools were enough or 
if CW adds value. CW might add something as of 10, but I don't know yet.

CW was always interesting, mainly because of the idea I could use C++ 
and target both platforms. Bummer...

- Scott