Gregg Irwin wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>
> << Does REBOL View, for example, support a drag & drop interface? I have
> seen no evidence of this, but admit that the time I've spent looking at
> it is probably no more than two hours. >>
>
> Allen Kamp has done some really nice demos of D&D inside View apps. Getting
> D&D events from Windows is another matter. I haven't tried catching
> WM_DropFiles, though it may be possible. The new SYSTEM port may allow
> catching WM_ messages but I haven't tried it.
>
In what little testing I've done, it looks like, if I have to publish
multiple scripts, I have to do it once for each one. Our development
scripts are structured in a psuedo-object-oriented fashion. It would be
convenient then to take a directory, or a group of files and publish
them to IOS all at once.
> << Can REBOL call external applications? I know it can connect to Oracle
> through ODBC and I assume it can through TNS Names, but can it call
> other applications (at least through OS calls) and execute them with the
> appropriate parameters? Case in point: can it call SQL*Plus, pass the
> User and Password and script to be run? >>
>
> View/Pro and Command can. The Link client still can't AFAIK. We have a
> script on our IOS server that doesn't run under Link, because we need to do
> that. No problem running that way if you don't mind doing it.
>
But Link is extensible through REBOL, correct? So if REBOL can, I assume
we can create an app in Link to do so.
> << I know IOS can detect file changes. Can it intercept those changes
> programmatically? Can we use it to create a log of files that have been
> changed?
>
> Not sure exactly what you mean, but probably yes. If you're going through
> IOS, you will see items published and, if you're writing your own post-func
> for your reblets, you can act on that. You could also have a daemon-type
> process that polls for things if that will work for you. Callbacks might be
> possible with the new system port as well, but I haven't tried it so I don't
> know, under Windows, if you can use the file-change notification APIs.
>
I mean, within Link, using REBOL, can I intercept a change in a file and
us it to fire of an action. It is functionality that we could use to
help us manage our scripting process.
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