Hi Scott,
Thanks for the vote of confidence. Yes, the Cocoa version has a small
scripting dictionary for now but will grow (*grin* no, there is no
alpha or beta of the Cocoa version available yet for testing). The
open plugin architecture is not this year and is not in the
development schedule but I added it yesterday as a serious idea and I
think it's a nice add if people are still using katieplayer to read
DAISY books a year from now. Ah, yes, adding support for additional
audio formats (e.g. Ogg Vorbis) is just the kind of thing might want
to do with a plug in - good example.
Joe
On Mar 18, 2006, at 5:47 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
Joe, oh now your talking. I can't see why there wouldn't be the
ability to play all audio format or whatever you wish. That's the
kind of thinking tha makes great products. Start with a base and
expand from there.
Scott
On Mar 17, 2006, at 11:26 PM, Kafka's Daytime wrote:
Adding to my last post:
Notwithstanding the various obstacles I mentioned in my previous
post: another way we can encourage healthy developer contribution/
involvement is to make katieplayer extensible. We can do this by:
1. In the relatively near term: making katieplayer Apple
Scriptable (some will argue this is not extensibility, strictly
speaking...but you know what I mean). The Cocoa version of
katieplayer will be scriptable. We'll start small and expand the
scripting dictionary as the app grows. (As I recall, both Scott
and Travis inquired about katieplayer and AppleScript in earlier
discussions).
2. In the longer term: create an open plugin architecture for
katieplayer. I like to think katieplayer as media player which
happens to have a DAISY focus. Media players and open plugin
architecture go together well.
Joe
