On Sunday, May 5, 2002, at 02:10 PM, Richard MacLemale wrote:
>> How much closer are we to having put Shell() work in OSX? > > Scott may answer, but my guess would be "no closer." MetaCard for OS X > is a > Carbon app, and from what I understand there's no way for Carbon apps > to be > able to issue UNIX commands. Cocoa apps can do this, but rewriting > MetaCard > in Cocoa from the ground up would not be a lot of fun for MetaCard, and > from > what I hear Cocoa isn't totally all there yet. > > But what about an external which could issue UNIX commmands and act as a > "go-between" between Carbon and OS X? > > I'm with you... There are a MILLION different things I'd like to do with > MetaCard for OS X, but I can't do them because MC for OS X doesn't allow > shell commands. I end up using mc (darwin), or AppleScript, and I'd > much > rather use MetaCard (OS X version.) There are a bunch of us who could > write > some serious kick-ass apps if MC could do this. I heard that we are moving over to a Mach-O build for the OS X version of MC on the next release. So, we should be very close to having Shell support on X soon. -Mark _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
