dlloyd
Official Pianist
Okay, here is the deal:
At our church, we have a children's bell choir. Now as you can imagine, kids usually can't read music, so each bell is color coded. The way the choir director (my Mom) tells them what bells to play is by holding up a card which has little color filled circles on it, each circle corresponding to a bell of the same color.
Now, she can buy these card sets ('songs'), but they run about $25 USD each, which is too much for our little church to support.
So, instead, she draws up new songs of her own. I was asked (I hope it turns into something I can get some $$$ out of
) recently to develop a computer program so that she can do this electronically.
I have already finished developing a working prototype using PHP and MySQL, but this looks and acts like a web page (I want it to be a bit more like an application.)
Here is what I need it to do:
To have a GUI front end where my Mom (or anybody else who maybe knows no more about computers than how to turn them on) can make and edit these cards. After that, I want them to be able to display each song as a full-screen slid-show, and also be able to print them out.
Now, I use a Mac, but the sad fact is that most of the poor uneducated souls out there are still stuck on those stupid bad-excuses-for-computers called PCs. This means that to reach to biggest potential audience, I will need to be able to port my program to the PC without too much hassle. From what I have heard, this rules out such 'cool tools' as Interface Builder, because it uses Objective C, which I have gathered is an Apple-only language. (Correct me here if I am wrong!)
I did a bit of research, and I was considering using Java (this will enable me to make Java Applets for my web sites too). My Dad suggested Revolution (http://www.runrev.com/), which looks quite good, but the free version of this is limited to ten lines of code per object. I haven't any idea what this means, but will it enable me to do what I want to?
The most advanced language I know right now is PHP, but I was planing to learn a language for Application development anyway, so this isn't a problem.
What I really want to know is what is the best application language to use for this application, and possibly others later too.
Any advice would be much appreciated!
At our church, we have a children's bell choir. Now as you can imagine, kids usually can't read music, so each bell is color coded. The way the choir director (my Mom) tells them what bells to play is by holding up a card which has little color filled circles on it, each circle corresponding to a bell of the same color.
Now, she can buy these card sets ('songs'), but they run about $25 USD each, which is too much for our little church to support.
So, instead, she draws up new songs of her own. I was asked (I hope it turns into something I can get some $$$ out of
) recently to develop a computer program so that she can do this electronically.I have already finished developing a working prototype using PHP and MySQL, but this looks and acts like a web page (I want it to be a bit more like an application.)
Here is what I need it to do:
To have a GUI front end where my Mom (or anybody else who maybe knows no more about computers than how to turn them on) can make and edit these cards. After that, I want them to be able to display each song as a full-screen slid-show, and also be able to print them out.
Now, I use a Mac, but the sad fact is that most of the poor uneducated souls out there are still stuck on those stupid bad-excuses-for-computers called PCs. This means that to reach to biggest potential audience, I will need to be able to port my program to the PC without too much hassle. From what I have heard, this rules out such 'cool tools' as Interface Builder, because it uses Objective C, which I have gathered is an Apple-only language. (Correct me here if I am wrong!)
I did a bit of research, and I was considering using Java (this will enable me to make Java Applets for my web sites too). My Dad suggested Revolution (http://www.runrev.com/), which looks quite good, but the free version of this is limited to ten lines of code per object. I haven't any idea what this means, but will it enable me to do what I want to?
The most advanced language I know right now is PHP, but I was planing to learn a language for Application development anyway, so this isn't a problem.
What I really want to know is what is the best application language to use for this application, and possibly others later too.
Any advice would be much appreciated!
