Simon Lord wrote:
> There is no reason why it could not be made to run, except for the
> fact that most of these PDA's have very limited RAM. If an MC exe
> takes up ~2mb of space then that's got to hurt the poor guy who owns
> a PDA. If however, it can be setup such that the user is told that
> this *runtime* app is required to run your stack and all of us agree
> to such a runtime stack which we can all use to test our stuff then
> that's fine. But if I make a calendar, and johnny makes a colour
> picker and both are compiled then that's 4mb of exe files for
> essentially 2 8k stacks.
>
> Some thought and agreements between us and Scott, *and* how to market
> this would be required.
As a Windows CE user (I have a Cassiopeia E125 Pocket PC), and it supports
Visual Basic applications that are developed for the Pocket PC platfom. It
basically runs like VB, or SC or MetaCard... you have an interpreter that is
loaded once, and a number of "projects" that run with the interpreter. In
the case of EVB (Embedded Visual Basic - the name for the development
environment for Pocket PCs), you have a "pvbscript.dll" which is the main
interpreter (and weighs in at about 600K), and individual projects can be
anything from 5K on up. If MetaCard were to do the same thing; that is,
create a version of MC which could be downloaded to a PDA and then only
stacks would get downloaded and run off the interpreter, it would be quite
reasonable.
Just my $0.02,
Ken Ray
Manager of Systems Technology
Thinking Publications, Inc.
http://www.thinkingpublications.com/
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