On 4/19/07, Ricardo Correa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [clip]
Very well put ideas Brian, keep them coming!
Your idea about adapters is very nice, but how do you envision passing your objects to the many available adapters (and where do the adapters live on the environment)? If there are adapters for any possible file type the place where the adapters are put could get very crowded... Or you see it as one system wide adapter that proxies your objects to the file type specific ones? If so, how can you select a specific adapter if there's more than one associated with that file type?
I was thinking of a proxy adapter that figures out which adapter will open which object. The proxy adapter is aware of which adapters are available and what they can open. So, right-clicking an object could give you a choice of the adapter to use -- just like it is now: right-click > open with > .... About tools loaded within documents... When you load a tool inside a
document, is the tool permanently loaded in it? I mean, can you share the document with the tools embedded in it ? (for other Etoile users only of course) I see this could help a lot when sharing files where the other person doesn't have that tool installed or it's not the same exact version or something... There are problems to think about like security or disk usage (it could be an option when exporting the document?).
The tools are not actually loaded into the document -- more like on the document. So the tools are not embedded in the document or anything like that. On sharing docs, there could be ways to do that but it's not what i had in mind. I was thinking of day to day use of your etoile system where you load many tools and they are easy to reach when docked on the document. Ricardo Correa
-- Happy day ------------- Brian
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