There is support for XCMD and AppleScript on the Mac... Works fine, no, works great! But none of these (or equivalents) are available on Windows...
When developing X-platform applications, as a developer you are responsible for making sure your application indeed is X-platform, but lack of the same options on Mac and Windows prevents us in doing so... T. > From: Stephen Quinn Barncard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 00:35:18 -0700 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Active X support > > Active X -- Great for windoze folks, useless for Mac and Unix... > Wouldn't this be against the 'cross platform concept" of Rev? > > And isn't there some kind of dll or xcmd support for PCs in Rev already? > >> Chipp, Tuviah, Kevin, >> >> It is simply impossible to extend the engine with all functions... When >> having Active-X support, we have access to so much more... COM, DLL's VB >> API's a lot of Java-applets etc... >> The biggest problem (and I really loooooooooovvvvveeeeeeeeee working with >> RR) is using external commands & methods... We can't take advantage of all >> the work those very clever C++ or Java developers did, with Active-X support >> we can. >> No, I don't agree that it's not worth the coding, it will give us >> scanning-capabilities, image-rendering capabilities, custom encription, >> inter-application-communication, OCR, all usable from within RR projects... >> WE NEED THIS!!! Now I have to do those things in Visual Basic, compile them >> as executables, (collect a thousand VB DLLs etc) and run these small exe >> files through the commandline. Exchange of info between these programs and >> RR go via text-files and it works, but it is sooooo tricky to do this... >> >> Please gang, give us the Active X support, it would solve a whole lot of >> trouble... >> >> Ton Kuypers >> >> > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
