EBT was done by Colin Holgate and Brock LaPorte. I was on other projects at the time but I gave em hell now and then :)Steve - Is there any chance of you doing something like that magnificent Voyager product, the Voyager Expandeed Book Toolkit on Revolution?
At Night Kitchen we built a tool, TK3, to create Expanded Books (http://www.nightkitchen.com/) but it is not scriptable, etc. ie, it is designed specifically as a closed system, for people who just want to make books that run on Mac and Windows.
I talked with someone at Mac World (I am horrible with names, Kevin was it?) about building tools in Revolution. The issue that comes into play is that any tool would have to be thought of as a plugin - the author would need to own Revolution and my plugin.
Back in the day (lordy, I can say that now, how depressing), we were trying to sell cheap toolkits. I guess these days, people are willing to pay. (or they can forego the Revolution cost if they only want to create short 10 line or less scripts I hear)
Not that I am aware of. Due to licences, even playing DVD off of a drive is problematic without rolling your own DVD playback engine (feel free to correct me if I am wrong, I have not looked into this in a few years)I was also interested in knowing if it is possible to control a DVD player in the way that you could control a videodisk in HyperCard?
As for physical control, none of my players have any sort of interface, not even the cheesy serial remote connection that our "Box" connected to. And having had to write the externals to control that beast cloaked in black metal, I don't know if I have any hair left to tackle that again. Wait, I'm bald, so I am sure I don't. :)
I had this box that a company of Wozniak's was working on in the 80s, a universal remote that had a serial interface. I had rolled a version of my videodisc externals to talk to the beast and send IR codes, haha. It was one way of course, but it worked, sorta. Then QuickTime came along and changed the world.
It would be great to be able to do something akin to Beethoven, which was buying an off the shelf CD and then controlling it, thus annotating it, via the computer. It is too bad the MPAA is so worried about theft (rightly so, I suppose) that we have lost that point of entry in the DVD field.
Let me also add my welcome.
Thank you! -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Riggins, Macintosh Geek http://www.geeksrus.com/ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
