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I'm pretty disappointed by the new version. I haven't checked the trial version yet, but just looking into the web help I can see that the most useful and easier to implement features are missing.
Where are the new compression formats? LZMA is implemented into SF for WI, yet it isn't in AMS 7. There are lots of open open formats like tar, bz2, gzip, and many more, but we're still stuck to the obsolete zip format, only because it's "popular". Where is Drag & Drop support on runtime? Most applications on tons of operating systems support it, heck, you could have rewritten the code from Mozilla Firefox, or something similar, there are lots of them out there.
The checkbox & radiobutton objects seem pretty pointless when compared to nifty features like those above. They can be easily implemented with a little code. Also, the RTF object doesn't make much point either. The web object has much more potential because it's basically IE, the web browser. (X)HTML, CSS, JS and a lot more can do way more things than you can ever do in RTF. If you don't know how to code in those languages, you can easily use a free/open-source software editor, there are hundreds of them out there, not to count the thousands of proprietary ones, mostly freeware.
Also, the support for audio is very small. We don't even have full support for OGG, we can only support OGG Audio (OGA) with Vorbis, no FLAC, no video, no other nice things. It's very funny to see those integrated into free software that was designed for GNU/Linux and runs natively on Windows as well, with the required libraries freely available.
The interface is very limited as well. The only themed objects we have are the slider, win button, media player and a few other objects. We don't have themes backgrounds to be used for tool bars and other stuff, which are used by AMS but aren't made available to us. One thing that I like is the runtime resize for objects. Though that's a bit late.
I personally don't think that the RTF object, the checkbox and radiobuttons, as well as slideshows and MSI actions can outdo the features mentioned above. Basically AMS 7 isn't a major version at all, and it doesn't deserve to be called "7". Not even 6.5, maybe a 6.1 (and I haven't seen any versioning scheme like that in IR).
If you are interested, I have quit using AMS and I'm focusing on using PHP-GTK, as well as learning C++. Thanks for reading!
Where are the new compression formats? LZMA is implemented into SF for WI, yet it isn't in AMS 7. There are lots of open open formats like tar, bz2, gzip, and many more, but we're still stuck to the obsolete zip format, only because it's "popular". Where is Drag & Drop support on runtime? Most applications on tons of operating systems support it, heck, you could have rewritten the code from Mozilla Firefox, or something similar, there are lots of them out there.
The checkbox & radiobutton objects seem pretty pointless when compared to nifty features like those above. They can be easily implemented with a little code. Also, the RTF object doesn't make much point either. The web object has much more potential because it's basically IE, the web browser. (X)HTML, CSS, JS and a lot more can do way more things than you can ever do in RTF. If you don't know how to code in those languages, you can easily use a free/open-source software editor, there are hundreds of them out there, not to count the thousands of proprietary ones, mostly freeware.
Also, the support for audio is very small. We don't even have full support for OGG, we can only support OGG Audio (OGA) with Vorbis, no FLAC, no video, no other nice things. It's very funny to see those integrated into free software that was designed for GNU/Linux and runs natively on Windows as well, with the required libraries freely available.
The interface is very limited as well. The only themed objects we have are the slider, win button, media player and a few other objects. We don't have themes backgrounds to be used for tool bars and other stuff, which are used by AMS but aren't made available to us. One thing that I like is the runtime resize for objects. Though that's a bit late.
I personally don't think that the RTF object, the checkbox and radiobuttons, as well as slideshows and MSI actions can outdo the features mentioned above. Basically AMS 7 isn't a major version at all, and it doesn't deserve to be called "7". Not even 6.5, maybe a 6.1 (and I haven't seen any versioning scheme like that in IR).
If you are interested, I have quit using AMS and I'm focusing on using PHP-GTK, as well as learning C++. Thanks for reading!
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