Even More Bad Mac Software
Posted March 28th, 2003 @ 03:06pm by Erik J. Barzeski
As if we didn't have enough of an uphill battle fighting off the REALbasic developers out there, MacCentral reports that:
REALbasic creator REAL Software Inc. will soon offer its developers a new tool that may help ease the conversion of Visual Basic projects to the Macintosh. VB Converter enables Visual Basic programmers to port their code to REALbasic. It automatically coverts Visual Basic forms, projects and code into REALbasic-compatible code, comments the changes, and also flags code that wasn't converted.
Great, so now we have to worry about Windows VB apps on the Mac too. Woe is me, woe is me!
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Posted 28 Mar 2003 at 3:44pm #
Yikes. This is only good news for PerversionTracker!
Posted 28 Mar 2003 at 3:49pm #
VB Programs On the Mac
Can we form a coalition to take these guys out special ops style?
Posted 28 Mar 2003 at 3:50pm #
I have a really hard time believing it will work well, so it is probably not much of a threat :-).
Posted 28 Mar 2003 at 7:59pm #
I can't see this being a big deal. The COM based components (eg. Active X) won't port over, so most current VB apps won't even run.
Posted 31 Mar 2003 at 11:06am #
Yeah, but anything that could possibly get Visual Pinball running on the Mac sounds promising to me. Anyone? Anyone?
Posted 11 Jul 2004 at 9:52am #
Actually customers report to us that most VB projects port over without too much extra effort. Most don't use COM or ActiveX components and those that do often provide some functionality that is already built-in to REALbasic.