On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Geoff Canyon wrote:
> on 9/3/00 11:28 AM, Scott Raney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > If you have
> > any questions or download it and can't figure it out, don't hesitate
> > to contact either me or Paradigma Software. This is a key technology
> > for MetaCard developers to have in their arsenal and we need to do
> > what it takes to make sure that it works well.
> > Regards,
> > Scott
>
>
> Funny you should post this, Scott, I was about to send this to the list
> anyway, so now it's a reply to your message:
>
> Does MetaCard support COM? If so, how easy/difficult is it? I'm asking
> because the Valentina database comes in an XCMD format, which should work on
> the Mac (but I haven't tried it yet) and what they call a VCOM/ActiveX
> format.
>
> So, can you use the VCOM/ActiveX version of Valentina with MetaCard on the
> PC?
No. The VXCMD is being distributed as a regular MetaCard external for
Win32 platforms. This means that the API is exactly the same as it is
for the Mac, which means you don't have to change your scripts at all
to run on both platforms. Supporting COM/ActiveX would not only
require you to completely rewrite your scripts for each platform, but
also require you to muck around with low-level details like having to
declare the types of all your variables like you have to in low-level
languages like BASIC and C/C++/Java.
Regards,
Scott
> Thanks
>
> gc
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