> Er, yes. The only tutorial material I can find is about **writing** Externals, > something I wish to avoid like the plague. As before, I'm asking for pointers, > in this case to the implementation of a 'simple wrapper' in a Windows > environment. What I'm really trying to avoid is having to learn a new (well, > probably quite old) development environment and a new (to me) language - the > whole grammar of the API, at least. Maybe there are no short cuts, in which > case I will have to go back to school. But it seems hard, after all the > struggles I've had over the years to bootstrap my way out of low-level coding. > > As ever, any suggestions gratefully received.
Graham, you can use a VBScript to do this... take a look at this tip on my site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/ext002.htm HTH, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
