05-12-2023, 08:24 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-12-2023, 08:40 PM by Roland_Beat_Boxer.)
(05-12-2023, 06:41 PM)Ultraman Wrote: ... I don't see it being a good enough language to make anything that someone wouldn't be embarrassed to try to sell ... ... I can't say I've used anything written by someone in QB64 that I'd feel comfortable paying money for ...
I certainly get why you're saying that. But I think it *could* be used for a serious commercial application. Not to reinvent wheels or try to outdo adobe or whatever, but for some things the mainstream software cliches (where all the competing software tends to just be clones of each other with the same tedious and fiddly way of operating) aren't the *best* way to do it, but merely the standard way to do it.
Something like Phoenix (with, admittedly, some refinements in a few areas) can be a means for someone with a different sort of design concept to implement it without millions of dollars and 100's people. Obviously, in the solo dev with an idea situation, at the moment most people are using other things for programming, but I dunno, you can get plenty ambitious for certain purposes using something like Phoenix.
Of the two things I've been working on for example, one is an image editor (of sorts - it's a very novel design). It's as far from something like photoshop as can be, but radically more efficient and capable for it's intended purpose. And it's not a simple or limited type of program, either, but extremely comprehensive for it's intended purpose, and full of things that simply dont exist in the mainstream apps. I'd never have had the time to get anywhere near as far into it as I have without phoenix.
One of the keys to this sort of thing though is that first impressions count, and a polished professional ui (I'm not the best programmer by any means, but without trying to sound immodest, I have some skills in the ui department, so what I'm working on at least doesn't have the "scrappy" feel, but is rather slick and solid in feel) goes a long way in how it's perceived.
Regardless, I haven't run into any limiting factors with Phoenix in working on projects, except that I've never been able to get anything to run at a stable frame rate. even when using the built in procedures for doing so, random hiccups occur every couple of seconds or so, which does look iffy whenever any kind of visual information is scrolling.