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AfterBlock - Blockland Desktop Program [UPDATE 1.2 RELEASED]
DontCare4Free:
--- Quote from: DontCare4Free on February 15, 2011, 03:19:16 PM ---I'll try though...
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It works fine, except for the stuff that uses Internet Explorer.
Also, it's quite hard to find the close button and the design otherwise seems a bit too mac-ish.
Simply, it's a design that would be fine for a game, but not for a desktop helper application.
DuckHunter:
--- Quote from: Wynd_Fox on February 14, 2011, 10:47:29 PM ---Pretty cool. Great job.
EDIT: Short of Task Manager, how does one close it?
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Top right corner,
Sheath:
The Mac version... its called conversion, not Cntrl C + V (protip, you can duplicate and move data in otherways!). There is no individual copy and paste, thats highly impractical and frankly a foolish remark.
--- Quote from: DontCare4Free on February 15, 2011, 03:29:41 PM ---So, instead you want to reinvent the wheel (again)?
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Now you are being thoughtless.
Trying to now say GML is so similar to other languages I could pick anything up instantly, and saying Linux is basically the same as Mac OS is just silly. I now assume you don't know anything about finding a target audience or working towards the demand, nor programming languages in general. So I'm not going to humor you anymore.
DontCare4Free:
--- Quote from: Sheath on February 15, 2011, 04:00:18 PM ---The Mac version... its called conversion, not Cntrl C + V (protip, you can duplicate and move data in otherways!). There is no individual copy and paste, thats highly impractical and frankly a foolish remark.
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That is not what I meant. I didn't mean the operation of ctrl+C and ctrl+V, I meant the general duplication of data. I meant that you have to do the manual update twice for every single change. THAT is the root of all evil.
--- Quote from: Sheath on February 15, 2011, 04:00:18 PM ---Now you are being thoughtless.
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Both are POSIX-compatible, so, it's easier to convert Mac OS X <-> Linux than say, Windows <-> Mac OS X.
--- Quote from: Sheath on February 15, 2011, 04:00:18 PM ---Trying to now say GML is so similar to other languages I could pick anything up instantly, and saying Linux is basically the same as Mac OS is just silly. I now assume you don't know anything about finding a target audience or working towards the demand, nor programming languages in general.
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That was not what I said. I said that you have to reinvent all GUI-controls again. A button is easy, but think of, say, a drop-down box. About programming languages in general, I have for example tried GML, C#, Java, Python and JavaScript, how many have you tried? Personally I prefer C#, but that is my personal opinion. Also, C# has a full-featured free edition, for you to try (Visual C# express edition) and Java and Python are completely free. And general-purpose. And have full-featured cross-platform GUI toolkits. Can GML really compare to that?
Sheath:
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