At 3:09 PM -0700 on 10/26/99, Alain Farmer wrote:
>Eric: Also nu in french means naked, so i do not think
>nuCard is such a good idea...
>
>Alain: On the contrary, a name like that would
>probably attract their attention, as evidenced by its
>preponderance in advertising, eh! ;-)
And it comes with source code -- not just in binary form. So it IS naked :)
>Uli: I kinda like it. The original Volkswagen (known
>as the Beetle in the US) was supposed to be the
>affordable car for everyone. If that isn't a striking
>similarity to HyperCard, I don't know what is.
>
>Alain: I like it too, Uli.
I think you've all blown a transformer or something.
>
>Alain: It doesn't seem likely to me. Externals that
>make calls to the Mac Toolbox are surely impossible to
>port, unless you re-code those parts of the toolbox
>that you will need (I suppose).
I'd say we should export those things, and the plugins should call them
through NuCard. After all, we have to have functions to draw lines,
circles, etc., do windows, controls, etc., for each platform -- why not
have the externals use it?
And externals writtin in Java would be _real_ neat. Hmmm... sounds like a
good use for Java.
