Important question regarding next major Rev version

Thomas McGrath III 3mcgrath at adelphia.net
Thu Feb 26 08:57:50 EST 2004


Alex,
I thought the scroll bars were all native???

FWIW

tom

On Feb 26, 2004, at 2:52 AM, Alex Rice wrote:

>
> On Feb 25, 2004, at 11:35 PM, Valetia Lowe wrote:
>
>> Will the upcoming release of rev take care of *ALL* of these 
>> issues???????? Really??? On all platforms including Windows??
>
> Those who can respond in detail to what's in the next release are 
> under non-disclosure agreement.
>
> But I sympathize and also wish for more "roadmap" types of 
> announcements from Runrev.
>
> Something that you should be aware though is that except for Mac OS X 
> "appearance manager", all the other look & feels, including Windows 
> and Linux, are all *emulated*. That means native controls are *not 
> being used*.
>
> Emulated controls are actually quite common among cross-platform GUI 
> toolkits.
>
> So you should not be expecting native controls everywhere- that is 
> simply not how Rev works, in past and present releases at least.
>
> That is my understanding at least, and would be glad to be corrected 
> about the native vs. emulated controls specifics in Runrev.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> --
> Alex Rice | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com
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