Application Generators

[Monte Goulding]

> Hi,
> I was curious if anyone can offer general feedback about this topic and
> also about using Revolution for this purpose.
>
> Application generators or 'Consumer Authoring Products' can be produced
> for a wide variety of applications such as eBook Builders, Music/Video
> Wrappers,Secure/Private User Spaces,Portfolio Presentations and so on.
> These Consumer Authoring Products should 'generate' complete
> applications, like Revolution itself,  but are much easier to use than a
> general purpose authoring tool.  More like a Wizard Interface to quickly
> step through the stages until an application is generated.
>
> So I wonder if/how Rev can go about making " lite " version clones of
> itself with only a strict set of functions for a defined purpose (eBook
> Creator, Media Wrapper).  And I assume there may be some licensing
> issues, depedning on how it is done ??
> Not sure.  ie. cloneRevolution app makes special-purpose and
> cross-plaform executable applications... This is allowed, yes?
>
> I would like to build a MediaWrapper and then later consider letting
> others use the wrapper under certain terms and conditions etc...

Rev would be well suited to this purpose. Where you start running into
licensing issues is with scripting but you don't really need that for the
kind of apps you've suggested.

Cheers

Monte