I think it's probably two of those things - the OS doesn't like to
expose certain things as much as others, and also programs like Rev
have to pick and choose what they support. Why not do the OS level
research, and find out how hard it would be to create an external?
Yes, I want it all! And I want it easy. Things like this can be
attacked at the application level... which would help ME... but it
will only help the whole rev community when it is an integral part
of the rev native event and command loop. This is why I talk of
these things on this and other lists... to garner interest... to
plant seeds... to grow memes in the heads of others.
Maybe Rev and programs like it just chase the low hanging fruit...
maybe this is an OS problem... maybe we live in a world where the
computer is a static device that waits for our commands... and maybe
that precludes the kinds of event driven automation that I seek. We
have no experience with it so we don't ask for it.
Randall
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:"
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