RealBASIC and OS X

[Phil St. Romain]

Recently I wrote to VSE about Be Found, a very fine search engine submission program that I'd used in OS 9/Classic to promote web sites I manage. I asked when an OS X version would be out and this was the reply I got:

Unfortunately I cannot tell you when and if we're going to release Mac OS X versions of our software.

We've massive problems with our development tool RealBASIC, Mac OS X and the plugins we use for our software. I'm sorry for this.

However, as long as there is no Mac OS X version, you can use our software in Classic mode just as fine.

Yeah, it works fine in Classic, but I DON'T WANT to use Classic any more!

My question for those of you who are developers is if it's your experience that RealBASIC is inadequate for writing software for OS X? Can any of you relate to the reply I was given?

Phil

[DSHwrd]

Hey Phil,

If the creator of 'Be Found' is in fact using some plug-ins that are not OS X compatible (meaning the plug-in developer is too lazy to put in some extra code to make it carbon), there would be no way for him/her to put out an OS X version. There might be another plug-in out there somewhere that does exactly what the guy needs, but he just hasn't found it yet (And it does compile for OS X). If you could ask the guy what plug-ins he needs, I'd be more than willing to search for an alternative for him.

Other than plug-ins, there is NO reason that someone can not port an OS 9 app to OS X through REALbasic.

There's my 2 pennies,

[Phil St. Romain]

Thanks, Daniel. I'll drop him a line and see what he replies.