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- From: stevew@mwg.com (Steven Woolgar)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.mfc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.owl,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools
- Subject: Re: cros-platform (mac-ms-windows) development
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 02:57:39 GMT
- Organization: AT&T Interchange Online Network
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- On Thu, 15 Feb 1996 11:37:45 -0500, kerr@math.ohio-state.edu (Kerr
- Gibson) wrote:
-
- >In article <Chris_Bailey-1202960925370001@rigel17.wco.com>,
- >Chris_Bailey@hysoft.com (Christopher R. Bailey) wrote:
- >
- >> > Another cool looking tool is Galaxy, from Visix (see
- >> > http://www.visix.com). It provides a nice collection of classes,
- >> > including an OS isolation layer, GUI, etc. It is expensive, also.
- >> We're evaluating Galaxy right now. It's pretty amazing. It's very big,
-
- I don't like it. Any company who lets you try it, but makes you sign
- an NDA about its performance is fucked.
-
- It emulates the OSes. That is a heavy and stupid way of doing things.
- IMHO
-
- >One question this brings up to my mind. Is there anything out there that
- >will convert previously created programs from one platform to another- or
- >does everyone recommend buying a cross platform kit and porting your code
- >to it?
-
- From personal experience, I have found that besides basic business
- type apps, cross platform libraries are useless.
-
- >Another issue is what to do about technologies that your program uses on
- >one platform that do not exist on another. What do people do about that?
-
- We make a core engine, make that cross-platform and then rewrite the
- interface on all the platforms.
-
- We write commercial software and cannot afford for our Mac software
- look like the Windows stuff. Mac buyers are fussy and know what they
- want.
-
- >I guess what I'm really saying is, do these cross platform builders really
- >only work with the most generic of programs or can they be made to fully
- >utilize the capabilities of the varying platforms? E.g. OLE, applescript,
- >java, etc.
-
- Yes to the generic part. Otherwise they write a work alike that
- emulates on thing on another platform.
-
- I have a perfect example of a cross-platform type of solution that
- totally screwed up a really nice product. Try out SoundEdit 16,
- version 2. Most of our sound recording engineers here refuse to use
- it. It is soooo slow and so badly designed that they would rather use
- version 1.
-
- Oracle Media Objects is another example of bad software ported. The
- Mac version is hideous.
-
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