>I think you've all blown a transformer or something.
Anthony,
excuse me?
>>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?
I think this won't be necessary, for the same reasons SuperCard doesn't
need the XWindow interface. People will prefer creating their windows using
OpenCard's easy-to-use tools and will only use externals where absolutely
necessary. But we should of course augment the externals' callbacks. There
should be callbacks to perform all OpenCard commands from inside an
external, to allow an external to dynamically a dialog window or whatever,
but it'll be just another stack window with parts in it.
>And externals writtin in Java would be _real_ neat. Hmmm... sounds like a
>good use for Java.
Possible. But I was actually hoping you'd create an OpenTalk interpreter
that is so fast that we don't need externals except to implement exotic
platform-specific features like controlling a scanner or who-knows-what.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
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