> Alain: This new OpenTalk syntax was inspired from
> AppleScript's favorites feature, but my spin has
> nothing to do with MacOS favorites or with Web
> bookmarks.
> Anthony: The problem is that your syntax will only
> allow paths ...
Alain: What makes you say this ??
Anthony: Because you're defining a property which
stores search paths, correct?
Alain: Yes, I am defining a property which stores
search paths but does this necessarily exclude other
path-like references (like URLs for example) ? The
script property is quite liberal with its contents.
> Alain: How much limited script space (chars) are
> going to be occupied by this search-feature?
Anthony: First off, THERE IS NO 30K LIMIT. There is
not a problem with limited script space, period.
Alain: Is the limit raised (to 64K like MC, for
example) or is there no limit whatsoever?
Anthony: Second, these script should be but a few
lines, I'd guess. (HANDLER) This would, btw, be the
built-in algorithm.
Alain: So you agree then that part of the search-paths
process should be internal to the application ...
> Alain: What if users inadvertently changes (a search
> and replace all, for example) or deletes these
> critical handlers?
Anthony: If the messages reach NuCard, they'd be
handled internally. So it won't be catastrophic if you
delete them.
Alain: ... with internal defaults for the externalized
portion of the search-paths process, just in case the
user misuses or deletes the Home-stack-handler(s) that
manage it. Great!
Anthony: And there I go informally proposing syntax
again.
Alain: What's wrong with that ?
> Alain: Could we objectivize handlers? In other
> words, treat individual handlers inside a script as
an
> instance of the handler-class. Each handler could
> thus have properties: like dontSearch, dontChange,
> dontRemove ... for examples.
Anthony: This would be a major change for HyperCard
...
Alain: Yes it would, but it would not make us
incompatible because its new functionality (superset).
Anthony: ... and would be better discussed on a
different thread (translation: let me think about it)
Alain: Fair enough.
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