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People, including me, have been saying "We want an Android version! We want an Android version! We want an Android version!" iPad users have been saying, "We want an iPad version! We want an iPad version! We want an iPad version!" Some people want it to run on Linux. Some people want it to run on Macs. With as complex as product as Hero Lab has grown into, for a small team, it's difficult enough to support one product, including updates, and bug fixes, and quality assurance, etc, etc. Hero Lab Online is LWD's answer to everyone wanting Hero Lab to run on every platform. There's ONE version to update and support for ALL platforms. So now, people can run Hero Lab on any platform. Any bug fixes only have to be applied to one source. Any quality assurance only has to be done with one source. If you have a better idea for providing maximum platform compatibility with a central source code repository, I'm sure they'd be happy to hear your sales pitch. |
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Most of the complexity should be in the data sets. The core executable shouldn't have to handle too much work: understand and parse the data set code efficiently & display according to the layouts defined in the dataset.
Farling Author of the Realm Works Import tool, Realm Works Output tool and Realm Works to Foundry module Donations gratefully received via Patreon, Ko-Fi or Paypal |
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You mean something like Java... It works great on everything except maybe iPad.
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Add an open API to the HLC classic engine and let the community develop an online extension for it (as well as many other very useful features like VTT integration, etc.) as was asked for MANY years ago.
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Java is nice and all, but I have to imagine it would have taken them way, way longer to convert everything to a new language than to wrap existing code in a central server and put a web UI on top of that.
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Once you start making such fundamental changes as you describe, it is almost a rewrite anyway, so it won't matter which language you use.
Farling Author of the Realm Works Import tool, Realm Works Output tool and Realm Works to Foundry module Donations gratefully received via Patreon, Ko-Fi or Paypal |
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Java. Sure. That's why it's been so easy to do full ports of RPTools to Android and iPad.
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