Yep, that's what i meant. But you said it better!
>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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