It's time to rebuild our application from scratch. This won't effect any customers, of course; updates are always free. So why rebuild?
Apple announced they're abandoning Java support on Macs.
As it happens, Burton Vision is written in Java. So to support the upcoming OS X 10.7 and further, it will be necessary to rebuild the program from scratch in C++.
C++ meets all specifications, and there are no 3rd party Java runtimes for Mac that are appropriate for consumer grade desktop programs, especially not with multimedia.
There will be a few more bug fix releases of the current version 1.3 series, and exactly one feature last feature I plan to add.
Before I took over, the last developer (Jason) who wrote the app in Java was replacing yet an older application that was written in C++.
At some point there was a version in Hypercard, I'm told. With something called a "laser disc". Whatever the case, we've come full circle.
To new beginnings.
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