Re: Be, OpenDoc, P & S and...

2014-06-13 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> Remember OpenDoc? Publish and subscribe? :-) http://www.linkbackproject.org/ MacOSX-specific afaik. Sincerely, Wolfgang ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subs

Re: Be, OpenDoc, P & S and...

2014-06-11 Thread Alain Farmer
Yes, there was Publish-&-Subscribe in it, but the really-amazing thing about OpenDoc is that everything would have been document-centric, versus application-centric like it is now and has been forever. In any document/application you would systematically use the components of your choice: your

RE: Be, OpenDoc, P & S and...

2014-06-11 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> I rermember OpenDoc. It would have been revolutionary. And it > was READY to go. I knew the guy at Apple Canada that was in > charge of promoting it. It was extremely hard to develop for, and several vendors did just that - and lost a huge amount of development investment. My favorite word pro

Re: Be, OpenDoc, P & S and...

2014-06-11 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Lynn Fredricks < lfredri...@proactive-intl.com> wrote: > Remember > OpenDoc? Publish and subscribe? :-) > Oh, yes. Publish & Subscribe seemed perfect for some of what I was doing back then. And any minute now, that update from my excel sheet to my word document

Re: Be, OpenDoc, P & S and...

2014-06-11 Thread Alain Farmer
I rermember OpenDoc. It would have been revolutionary. And it was READY to go. I knew the guy at Apple Canada that was in charge of promoting it. He was profoundly disappointed when Apple dropped-the-ball; just as we were when HyperCard was steved. And so it was with many other promising R&D ini

Re: Be, OpenDoc, P & S and...

2014-06-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
If anyone feels nostalgic enough for a download, fire up Virtual Box and have your own Be OS running now - courtesy of the open source version, Haiku: Lynn Fredricks wrote: ...like OpenDoc. Remember OpenDoc? Publish and subscribe... ...and Sk8, and ScriptX, and

Be, OpenDoc, P & S and...

2014-06-11 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Very interesting time in MacOS land when Be came around. I wrote an article for their developer magazine about sales & distribution. At the time, I was also involved in selling a different RAD tool and in talks with Be to port it to the BeOS. Had they agreed to terms, I think it would have changed