On Mon, Apr 01, 2002, Andy DePue wrote: > it appears Plucker has support for images, color, forms,
Not forms. > However, it also seems that the code for reading/manipulating the > "document" (or Palm DB) is written directly into the rendering code. Well, there is some "abstraction". > Our idea would be to abstract the document access out of the viewer > engine. The renderer would go through an API to access > documents/images/etc. Anyone could "plug in" an implementation of this > API.s Sounds OK. > We would then be able to write an implementation that could > directly pump the output of our XML script to the renderer and give the > renderer direct access to our image data. How do you intend to run these programs at the "same" time? What about the speed when you have to access the data through several extra layers everytime? /Mike
