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Re: [ANN] SuperSpriteSurface 2.0 Beta 1

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Subject: Re: [ANN] SuperSpriteSurface 2.0 Beta 1
From: John Balestrieri <lists at tinrocket dot com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:51:38 -0400
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Of course, spritesurface, the commercially supported option, is now  
dead. What makes you think that superspritesurface would be any better  
if my company charged a fee for it? ;)

John Balestrieri


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(This message was typoed on my smart phone)

On Mar 31, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Chris Little <cslittle at mac dot com> wrote:

> on 3/31/08 8:47 AM, Arnaud Nicolet at anic297 at mac dot com wrote:
>
>> Le 31 mars 08 à 03:48 (matin), John Balestrieri a écrit:
>>
>>> SuperSpriteSurface is a class framework for REALbasic that  
>>> provides a
>>> savvy, modern alternative to REALbasic’s built in SpriteSurface
>>> control which was recently dropped by REAL Software. There's a  
>>> general
>>> overview of version 1.0 here:
>>
>> They have dropped it? What for?
>> It's still in 2007r5, however.
>
> It was part of the 2008r1 release notes:
>
>> [Dep] [All] SpriteSurface: The SpriteSurface is now deprecated. We
>>            suggest using Tinrocket's SuperSpriteSurface class  
>> instead.
>>            The SpriteSurface will be removed from a future version of
>>            REALbasic.
>
> RS hasn't said when they are dropping SpriteSurface but it was  
> hinted that
> it might be as soon as 2008r2. I'm very disappointed with this  
> strategy of
> replacing an RB feature with an unreleased product from a third- 
> party. With
> all respect to John, SuperSpriteSurface seems to have been in the  
> works
> since 2005. That gives me no confidence that there will be any kind of
> active maintenance particularly since he isn't charging for it.  
> There are
> some hints about a source code license but no guidance on cost.
>
> Chris
>
>
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