Which is the best tool for RAD?

ts-soft · Post by **ts-soft** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:13 pm

> Forget about cross-platform, there's no money in it.
For small highprice special-application there is a big market on MacOS
For Server-Application is a big market on Linux.
The windows-market is to filled to make money. Only games have a small
chance.

yust my 2 cents

utopiomania · Post by **utopiomania** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:29 pm

The windows-market is to filled to make money

Pfft, just like the market in general. Filled up with bored people waiting for something better to buy.

Post by **Kiffi** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:36 pm

ts-soft wrote:The windows-market is to filled to make money.

i don't think so. since almost 15 years i earn my money with coding windows-
programs. and there is no end in sight.

(and i do not know a customer who needs applications for several
OS. Either Windows, Linux or MacOS)

Greetings ... Kiffi

Kale · Post by **Kale** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:52 pm

utopiomania wrote:C# & .NET is the best RAD tool. You can also compile your apps for other OSes using Mono

I've corrected that for you.

Post by **Kiffi** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:14 pm

Kale wrote:
utopiomania wrote:C# & .NET is the best RAD tool. You can also compile your apps for other OSes using Mono
I've corrected that for you.

VB.Net = C#
(mostly; the differences are very small)

Greetings ... Kiffi

the.weavster · Post by **the.weavster** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:39 pm

Kiffi wrote: i do not know a customer who needs applications for several OS. Either Windows, Linux or MacOS)

But if your chosen programming language is cross-platform you can use it irrespective of your customers chosen OS, so you're not using one for Windows, another for Linux and yet another for Mac.

I'm certainly not suggesting RB Pro is as good as VB.NET though.

thanos · Post by **thanos** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:15 am

Kale wrote:
utopiomania wrote:C# & .NET is the best RAD tool. You can also compile your apps for other OSes using Mono
I've corrected that for you.

Did anybody already used the Mono project?
Is it reliable?
Regards.

Thanos

glops · Post by **glops** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:02 am

I tried REVOLUTION studio, but because we could not call windows API, com and active X, and because it was very expensive, I left this tool.
Was interesting, but their licenses were too bad.
RealBasic was cool too, I tried it, but expensive too.
Some ideas can be foung in PureForm, but I agree a real GUI should be created for PB, and after that all the PB users could feel happy like KCC.

because PB is a great tool, forum is wonderful, ressources are great, language powerful.

Kale · Post by **Kale** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:32 am

thanos wrote:Did anybody already used the Mono project?
Is it reliable?

I've used it and it's solid. It has support for all C# 3.0 features (plus VB 8, Java, Python, Ruby, Eiffel, F# and Oxygene) and most of the .NET framework is finished. It even has support for ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and Windows.Forms 2.0. The only thing it doesn't support at the minute is WWF and WPF. You can also use MoMa to aid with migration of your assemblies.

Check it out:
http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page

thanos · Post by **thanos** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 4:47 pm

cxAlex wrote:If you only want to do things like CD Menus, GUIs, try this:

http://www.instantexe.com/

(German Version: http://www.clickexe.de/)

Thank you for the suggestion.
Unfortunately, this tool is very limited.
Regards

Thanos

thanos · Post by **thanos** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 4:55 pm

@glops

glops wrote:I tried REVOLUTION studio, but because we could not call windows API, com and active X, and because it was very expensive, I left this tool. Was interesting, but their licenses were too bad.

I used this tool. I believe this language is "voluble". And i agree with you for its license. It is horrible.

@Kale
Thank you very much. I know the Mono's project features but i never tested it before.

What about Delphi?
Is there anyone Delphi programmer in the forum?
Regards

Thanos

mrniceguy1971 · Post by **mrniceguy1971** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:32 pm

Take a look at http://www.codegear.com/products/delphi/prism.

It could be interesting for you.

thanos · Post by **thanos** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:49 pm

mrniceguy1971 wrote:Take a look at http://www.codegear.com/products/delphi/prism.

It could be interesting for you.

Thanks.
It is very interesting.
Regards.

Thanos

thanos · Post by **thanos** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:45 pm

Another two seems to be interesting tools are the
1. Windev
2. Runtime Revolution
Does anybody have any experience with these products?
Regards.

Thanos

Mistrel · Post by **Mistrel** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:43 am

Kale wrote:
PB wrote:The Visual Designer needs a lot of
work. A real lot.
Agreed, a good solid IDE with an integrated form designer would move PB forward leaps and bounds.

Agreed. Even something as basic as Visual Studio's form designer would be a great improvement. Personally, I would like to see integrated UML modeling which updates to and from the project source code.

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