We’ve seen many more rude statements than yours around here! Don’t worry about it, it’s all part of growing up and maturing. It’s hard to believe, but I haven’t always been so amazingly fabulous and modest.
The important thing is learning from past experiences. I believe we have all said something in our past (or present) that we wish we never said but admitting it was the wrong statement and apologizing is the best we can do as humans.
BTW: welcome back
@Gavin
I do not believe there was ever a time where you were not amazingly fab!
The important thing is learning from past experiences. I believe we have all said something in our past (or present) that we wish we never said but admitting it was the wrong statement and apologizing is the best we can do as humans.
BTW: welcome back
@Gavin
I do not believe there was ever a time where you were not amazingly fab! :P[/quote]
Thanks. I don’t know what you are referring to with ‘amazingly fab’. As for, my response to ‘Welcome back’. I’m just going to say I have not really left the Xojo community, I have just been a lot less active. I have also been busy. I have become less reliant on other people to answer my Xojo questions too.
I just wanted to apoligise at these rude and cringey statements. At least I have learned to be much more mature since.
Thanks for the hard work from Xojo and the community.
Xojo is definatly going somewhere and I do understand that sometimes you cannot predict when something is going to be completed.
Thanks[/quote]
Been there, and I feel exactly the same way. I used to be one of those hard critics of RealBasic/Xojo, mainly from the bugs I used to run across, the time it tooks to fix those, the licensing scheme, and the potential I felt it had… but never came to light. I think, in general, these are understandable; however, I let my frustrations become a little to personal and aggressive.
Xojo has come a long ways, and I truly appreciate the patience and understanding a lot of the guys and gals working there have. I have some regrets for the way I handle situations in the past; however, I have absolutely no regret for sticking through the storms I’ve encountered and continuing to stay with Xojo. I now have much respect for the product and the community…
Much enthusiasm comes with much hope. Add to that some mistimed announcements, and you got very disappointed fans. Case in point : iOS. For having shown a demo much, much too early, Geoff created a horde or frustrated users who naturally expected results before two years or so. Me among them.
Let Him Who is Without Sin Cast the First Stone. I have to confess many a time did I promise features and stuff to my customers, and fell behind so badly…
Now, great followers also come with great passion. Tough love. I am not going to apologize for having been gullible to premature announcements. After all, I do trust Xojo to deliver when it shows a working demo. I am not going to beat myself for being frustrated that Xojo did not come up with 64 bit at the same time as its competitors, would that be Visual Studio or XCode.
In a way, Xojo depends on gadflies to stay afloat in a very competitive market. So I am not about to renounce hoping that they see the light, and bring about .NET to Windows, for instance. And do not intend to relent and play nice in my criticism of Xojo’s lack of love for the lesser child, whatever the excuses.
Who loves well chastises well.
Now the only thing I really cannot sanction is downright dishing of my favorite development tool. For all its failings, Xojo remains a fantastic RAD which has helped me create apps many times faster than its competitors. Whenever I read somewhere angry posts by people who boast about dumping Xojo to the greener grass over the fence, I feel they are either ingrates, or downright incompetents playing language snobbism to excuse their own downfall.
In someways it reminds me when I was frustrated about some things I was used to have in VB6 and could not have in Xojo and I was a bit ranty.
But Xojo has become my new home now.
I only miss autosizing and background color on labels
@Oliver Scott-Brown You’re giving tons of help here that helped me and many others on this forum. I think that more than made up for whatever you think you need to apologize for.
[quote=231487:@Marco Hof]@Oliver Scott-Brown You’re giving tons of help here that helped me and many others on this forum. I think that more than made up for whatever you think you need to apologize for.
@Horacio Vilches
Maybe this helps :)[/quote]
I try to help when I can but I do not know if I have given that much help (more asked for help) in the past. XD But thanks anyway.
