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All Time:	(5.0)
Version 2.5:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	2.5
Release Date:	2004-09-16
License:	Commercial
Downloads (version 2.5):	132
Downloads (all versions):	2,950
Price:	$75-599

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Product Description:

Revolution is an easy to use integrated development environment for MacOS (Classic and X), Unix, and Windows computers. Revolution supports cross-platform database access, advanced multimedia including Quicktime movies and virtual reality, and a range of other advanced features.Using Revolution's user interface layout tools and built-in Transcript programming language, developers can create standalone, double-clickable applications for any supported platform. You use familiar WYSIWYG tools to lay out your user interface, then write the code that ties it all together. Run and test your application right in the IDE. No matter what platform you use for development, a simple Preview command shows you how your application will look in Windows, Unix, or Mac OS. Finally, either release your application as a file distribution that runs in the freely downloadable Revolution runtime, or build true double-clickable applications for release on each platform you want to support. Key features include support for Quicktime, Quicktime VR, native support for 10 image formats (including PNG, GIF and JPEG), audio, arrays, regular expression matching, Internet sockets and much more.

What's new in this version:

Revolution Online
New Tools Palette, Menu Builder and Application Browser
Support for SSL - Secure Sockets Layer
Industrial strength encryption
GTK - native theme support on Linux
XML- RPC library
Better unicode support
Support for DBSQLite
Support for FrontBase

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Windows XP
Windows 2000
Windows NT
Windows 98
Windows 95

Additional Requirements:

Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
QuickTime 3.0 or later required for video features (4.1 or later recommended)

Feedback Summary:

Version 2.5:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(5.0)	Support:	(4.3)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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Excellent application development environment - Version: 2.5, 3/11/2005 10:43PM PST

Trevor_DeVore_685

My company has been using Revolution for the last 3 years to develop multimedia applications involving history and tasked based learning. I've been extremely happy with it. Coming from a Director/Flash/PHP background it took a little getting used to the Revolution way of doing things but now I wouldn't go back.

Revolution's powerful scripting language combined with it's excellent database connectivity, easy dynamic creation of objects at runtime, QuickTime support, XML parsing and internet connectivity allow us to create rich user experiences. More than once I've discovered that adding a feature to our software was much easier than I had originally anticipated because of all the options that Revolution makes available. Highly recommended.

Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
www.mangomultimedia.com

Revolution delivers.. - Version: 2.5, 3/9/2005 02:19PM PST

chippwalters

At Altuit, we use Runtime Revolution (RR) for many front-ends to our web-application server products. Included among them are popup alert managers, homeland security data sharing apps, our highly acclaimed "Hemingway" content management system and more. You can go to our developer website to learn more.

It really does deliver on the promise of cross-platform development. We have recently completed a brainstorming software development project for ExitPath called eXpertSystem, which will take the place of their award winning IdeaFisher product. They had been trying to deliver this same product for over 8 months using RealBasic. It took us all of a month to replicate the functionality, plus add many new features for our client.

We develop in C, C++ and all the scripting languages. But, we find we can develop applications an order of magnitude faster using RR. In cases where we need special functionality, we create our own externals to work with RR (including an embedded browser so developers can build their own 'i-Tunes' like client). RR is based upon 11-year old technology which gets better with each release-- that's why it is so stable.

-Chipp Walters, CEO, Altuit, Inc
www.altuit.com

Strongest ROI of any dev tool I've used - Version: 2.5, 3/9/2005 01:34PM PST

FourthWorld

Rev is an unusual way of working, but it gives an unusually strong ROI for the brief learning curve.

I've been shipping commercial apps with it for years, and this latest release is the most rock-solid yet.

Thanks, Rev team!