On 1/28/00 1:41 PM, andu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>On 1/28/00 4:43 AM, Sandro Bilbeisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on
>>the xTalk list):
>>
>>>I just chanced on the homepage of a new JAVA XCMD for HyperCard:
>>>http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Circuit/6865/
>>
>>
>>I'm wondering how hard it would be to incorporate something like this
>>into MetaCard? It allows javabeans to be used within HyperCard, which
>>leads to some pretty amazing capabilities. Examples include the use of
>>the Swing set widgets, and a full browser running within HyperCard.
>
>Java should be ilegal. Every time I tried using it either locked my
>computer or some other thing went wrong. I was trustful enough to test the
>above and, as expected it locked the machine for a while, HC didn't quit,
>after which only a restart would bring things to normal. Even Windows
>behaves better.
I agree that java is not the greatest thing on the planet. I agree that
we should be wary. But I tried this XCMD and had (almost) no problems. I
did notice that the example stack used a wait command after trying to
load a java bean, which on a few occasions when the bean didn't load
properly, made HyperCard appear hung. Command-period fixed the situation.
On the other hand, in about fifteen minutes (had to update my java
installation and my copy of HyperCard), I had a web browser in a stack.
Think about that--a full-blown, graphics-capable,
javascript-and-cookies-enabled browser. I hit Apple's site and the New
York Times, and it works well (graphics update on animations was a little
flickery). This is a Very Good Thing. There are a _lot_ of beans out
there. Check out
http://www.flashline.com/components/javabeans.jsp
or
http://industry.java.sun.com/solutions/0,2346,beans,00.html
Maybe you're right, and we don't need this. But I think it would be great
to be able to write a MetaCard application that was able to display my
company's live web page as an about box. (Actually, that would be
bad--but there are other examples)
gc
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