realbasic-plugins
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Updating Plugins for REALbasic 2005

To: REALbasic Plugins <realbasic-plugins at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: Re: Updating Plugins for REALbasic 2005
From: Björn Eiríksson <bjorn at einhugur dot com>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:49:37 +0000
Delivered-to: realbasic-plugins at lists dot realsoftware dot com
References: <a06200712be89854a9f41 at [10 dot 10 dot 13 dot 4]> <A12FF6F8-B024-11D9-AAF1-000A277A7E3C at einhugur dot com> <a06200717be898f820477 at [10 dot 10 dot 13 dot 4]> <26ae03a19ac79ec9aaae76f86ff6c5bc at shaw dot ca>

On 18.4.2005, at 16:41, Norman Palardy wrote:


On Apr 18, 2005, at 10:24 AM, Joseph J. Strout wrote:

At 4:12 PM +0000 4/18/05, Björn Eiríksson wrote:

I take it that this basically means that the icon cannot look good in Mac style non .rbx plugin ?

It means it can't have an 8-bit mask, correct. It also can't support the larger icon we may use at some point in the future. Please move to the new RBX format.

If you still want the plugin to be useful by older RB versions then you cant use the RBX format for those old versions.

I think that's the gist of the question.

No RBX has been around for quite a while, I don't think we support in new plugins any REALbasic version that does not support RBX. So there is no good reason for me not to use RBX also for the Mac except few reasons like: 1) Users hate the RBX because there is no obvious version info in it. 2) I dislike the concept of rbx because they are very slow. There were some other valid points which are no longer valid, such as our copy protection used to depend on it on the Mac. But thats no longer the case.

So for me I can without and mayor problem switch to using only rbx if that is the trend.

--
______________________________________________________________________
Björn Eiríksson                            bjorn at einhugur dot com
Einhugur Software
http://www.einhugur.com/
______________________________________________________________________
Einhugur Software has sold its products in 45 countries world wide.
______________________________________________________________________
For support:                               support at einhugur dot com
To post on the maillist:                   einhugur at yahoogroups dot com
_______________________________________________
Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode:
<http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/>

Search the archives of this list here:
<http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>