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[Monte Goulding]

> > I still haven't thought of a reason to maintain the MetaCard
> IDE let alone
> > the documentation.
>
> What in FreeGUI has earned your recommendation to devote time to
> working on
> it?  I haven't played with it much since last year, so I may well
> be missing
> something.

Nothing, I didn't recommend FreeGUI. That's the worst bit of the FreeCard
project (sorry Alain). I recommended FreeCard which is the engine they are
developing. I can see the technologies they are using to develop it and for
anyone with Java and xCard skills it will offer a very extensible
development platform. My only concern is that pure Java GUIs are usually
very slow so a Java GUI with xTalk over the top is likely to be a slug. And
let's all hope they don't use swing because it looks like crap.
>
> > Don't get me wrong. Rev is not the be all and end all. But MetaCard's
> > time is over. It's time to move on whether you realise it now or in
> > 10 years time.
>
> MetaCard is alive and well, serving as the foundation for RunRev. As
> arguably the most flexible xTalk ever, it can support an unlimited variety
> of IDEs to accomodate any preference.

Maybe you missed something but MetaCard is now only an IDE that can be used
with the Revolution engine ;-)

Sorry but our world has changed no matter how much you try and keep it the
same.

Regards

Monte