I would really like to know how compileit wored. My guess was that it did some form of xtalk to c sourse translation and then compiled it. But maybe i am wrong... Maybe ti went out to some public smalltalk compiler. Anyone know? The kinds of system events - to messages thingsm i have been asking for would never come from anything like compile-it... But several times back in the day, i used it to speed up a repeditive process loop. Orders of magnitude speed enhancement! (and, yes, everyone take our vitamins!) randall
-----Original Message----- From: "Joe Lewis Wilkins" <[email protected]> To: "How to use Revolution" <[email protected]> Sent: 1/19/2009 2:41 PM Subject: Re: externals Hi everyone, I just got back from an out of town trip and, belatedly, learned of Eric's demise. Wow! And he was 14 years younger than I am. Such a pity. Everyone looses so very much when one is taken in their prime; and Eric, based on his command of just about everything he did, WAS in his prime. I wish I had been fortunate enough to have met him. I'm sure he'll be helping others from a better place than this. A brief comment relating to this thread: I just wish we had an application like Compile-It for Rev. Too much to ask? Then we could create cross-platform externals as we did so easily, but just for HC. It would seem that, using the Compile-It source as a foundation would not make this an insurmountable task. But I guess I'm being a bit naive with this conjecture. Let's hope that none of our other elder Revers join Eric too very soon. Stay healthy my friends. Take your vits and exercise. Do push- aways wih frequency. Joe Wilkins On Jan 19, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Brian Yennie wrote: > Randall, > > Unfortunately it seems you are looking for a high-level API to take > care of a very low level job. There simply isn't an API for > everything. You are probably going to have to get your hands dirty > in C if this is your goal. If you know the OS APIs you want to tap > into, you could work on building externals in C. If you don't, time > to do some research =). You will definitely need to build separate > externals for each operating system as well. > > Maybe not what you were hoping for, but I hope that helps. > >> QuickKeys is cool... but it doesn't offer finder events as triggers >> for the execution of macros. There is no way, for instance, to >> tell it: >> >> When a user saves any file, from any application, and the name >> contains "Entropy", then save an alias at "Hard Drive: My Entropy >> Docs:" > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html> ---------------------------------------- Joe Lewis Wilkins [email protected] [truncated by sender] _______________________________________________ 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
