Anyone here interested in attempting to build an external that would sprout a process that would tap into the file system event loop and generate xtalk messages?
-----Original Message----- From: "Mark Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "How to use Revolution" <[email protected]> Sent: 1/9/2008 6:52 PM Subject: Re: tapping into finder events Well I agree, really, but what you're after is really getting at the guts of the OS - so it would be up to developers to make it available to users in a way that they can deal with. One of the things that is cool about Revoluton is that nearly everything is at a nice high level, but if necessary, one can get a bit low level when necessary, within reason. Best, Mark On 10 Jan 2008, at 02:45, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: > I remember when the good people at xerox parc built this great > graphical front end so that memorizing a thousand command line > utterances would become a thing of the past. > > So, given the dozen or so languages and protocols i am forced to > know (applescript, appleevents, xtalk, unix commands, xml, html, > dhtml, perl, c, c++, c#, java, javascript, etc...) and the fact > that the solution being sugested demands that i enter a root user > mode that apple itself spends considerable amount of energy dis- > recomending, i wonder what has become of "computing for the rest of > us?" > > But i do thank you for the info and advice. I am looking for a > solution generalizable to "everyone"... Otherwise it will > ultimately fail for me. Can you imagine telling your users to > start a root account? > > randall > -----Original Message----- > From: "Mark Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "How to use Revolution" <[email protected]> > Sent: 1/9/2008 6:15 PM > Subject: Re: tapping into finder events > > Randall, 'open process' is a way of opening other apps and being able > to communicate with them. > > For example (this works on OS X with Rev 2.9, but won't with earlier > versions of Rev), to run an interactive session in the bash shell: > > on mouseUp > put "/bin/bash" into tProc > open process tProc for binary update > write "echo $USER" & cr to process tProc > wait 10 millisecs > read from process tProc until empty > put it > close process tProc > end mouseUp > > you should now see your username in the message box. > > Hope this helps, > > Mark > > > > On 9 Jan 2008, at 08:17, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: > >> What does "open process[ing]" something do? How do you do it? >> >> > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
