Cross-platform?

Hoodsey · October 14th, 2011, 07:30 PM

Kind of a vague Title, but I wanted people to click on it.

I recently picked up REALbasic Studio as my programming language, I think Lone Wolf should consider this development environment also, because the main seller of this language is... true cross-platform development. Develop on ANY OS you purchase a key for (special rules apply for the Enterprise license, however), and you can compile for OS X, Windows AND Linux. Talk about reaching out to audiences...

I don't know what it's coded in now, but I know Visual Basic is an easy import...

Duggan · October 15th, 2011, 09:01 PM

C++ IIRC, so it's already in a cross-platform language.

Admittedly, UI and such are 3rd party, but given they've had success in coding for Macintosh and most Linux users are running it via Wine, I don't know that there's much impetus to rewrite everything in a completely new language.

Hoodsey · October 16th, 2011, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Duggan

C++ IIRC, so it's already in a cross-platform language.

Admittedly, UI and such are 3rd party, but given they've had success in coding for Macintosh and most Linux users are running it via Wine, I don't know that there's much impetus to rewrite everything in a completely new language.

Dunno if it'd be a total rewrite, but the ability to run the application natively without having an emulator is fantastic. Since it assembles in machine code, it's nice. I've been working my way through a REAL Studio book. Fairly flexible. I can't wait until later in the book though.

Colen · October 17th, 2011, 11:48 AM

Unfortunately we're coded in C++ as Duggan says, so rewriting RealBasic would indeed be complete rewrite. We are working on an OS X version of Hero Lab right now, which we're hoping to have out before the end of the year.

Duggan Senior Member Volunteer Data File Contributor Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 1,502 October 15th, 2011, 09:01 PM	C++ IIRC, so it's already in a cross-platform language. Admittedly, UI and such are 3rd party, but given they've had success in coding for Macintosh and most Linux users are running it via Wine, I don't know that there's much impetus to rewrite everything in a completely new language.
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Colen Senior Member Lone Wolf Staff Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 4,690 October 17th, 2011, 11:48 AM	Unfortunately we're coded in C++ as Duggan says, so rewriting RealBasic would indeed be complete rewrite. We are working on an OS X version of Hero Lab right now, which we're hoping to have out before the end of the year.
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