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User Name Trevor_DeVore_685

Member Since 2003-12-10

Total number of Feedback Posts: 3

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Revolution 3.0 (Mac OS X)

I have been developing applications with Revolution for a number of years and participated in beta testing of version 3. To me Revolution 3.0 is a very interesting release for a number of reasons.

Development Cycle

Runtime Revolution seems to have streamlined their development cycle. New beta builds were being pushed on a pretty regular basis. As testers this was wonderful as we could test new features, such as multi-dimensional arrays, provide feedback and bug reports and then see fixes shortly thereafter. I've never seem them progress so quickly on a new release.

Stability

Fixing bugs seems to be a very high priority for Runtime Revolution right now. Starting with 2.9 and continuing with 3.0 they have been fixing lots of issues. My confidence in the company's commitment to creating a quality product has increased quite a bit.

Polish

Version 3.0 added the ability to assign multi-key accelerators to your application menus. Previously you could only assign menu shortcuts that used Command + a single letter/number. Now we can assign multiple modifiers and use keys such as arrows. I don't know that this is one of those features that will sell lots of new copies, but it definitely helps us developers provide more polished products to our customers. I'm glad the engineers are taking time to polish off features such menu accelerator keys.

Moving Forward

3.0 introduced the multi-dimensional array to Revolution. This is the first addition of a data structure in all of the years I've been using the product. Having data structures that can represent hierarchal data such as XML is a huge productivity boost for me. I'm looking forward to further enhancements such as this in the future.

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Friday, September 12 2008 @ 06:15 PM PDT

Drops 1.0 (Mac OS X)

Great Game

I've been testing this game for the last few weeks and I love it. I don't play games very often but I find myself launching drops a couple of times a day. The concept is simple but it is addictive. I really enjoy the sound effects. [alert admin]

Revolution 2.5 (Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 2000)

Excellent application development environment

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

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Shows great promise!

I'm glad you like the idea behind the software. We will be making improvements and enhancements to layout control and export options in the future. If you have any specific functionality you would like to request please let us know through our forums http://www.bluemangolearning.com/forums/ or email us at feedback at screensteps dot com.

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Friday, March 16 2007 @ 10:22 AM PDT