On Aug 7, 2004, at 11:18 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
Unlike most of us on this list, you are already an accomplished C programmer. In fact, you have successfully written a couple VERY NICE externals for RR!
Now, I wonder, how many others on this list would take the time to learn the correct C interfaces to the WinAPI (I'm sure Ken would!). As feature requests are made, the RR team has to factor how many users would benefit from them.
I agree that these types of things might not be at the top of the development list but I would like to see them in there someday. As I mentioned, I would like ActiveX in order to support other video players on Windows but the project I would use it on doesn't have the budget to support paying someone to create it yet (I suspect that this type of external is way out of my league). I would be perfectly happy using an external to do this if it was available however.
Also, as you recall at the Rev Summit in CA, Chris Bohnert demonstrated how easy it is to create an external for RR. One which can call a Win32API if needed. So, it seems to me, an interim step would be a really good primer for creating externals for RR.
I agree that a primer for externals would be very beneficial. One nice thing about Director was being able to go out and find an Xtra to accomplish just about anything Director couldn't do natively. If it wasn't necessary to hunt down information on how to create them then perhaps more people would be involved. I would like to see some examples of interacting with OS technologies that the user interacts with (WebKit, PDF, etc.). I know how to pass data around but I don't even know where to start when it comes to viewing data from something like WebKit. I think Chris mentioned that you do something with images but some examples showing how to go about this would be nice.
'Cause even with a WinAPI interface embedded in the language, users will still need to learn a lot to be able to use it.
True but if other development environments are doing this successfully and it is a feature that potential Rev customers are looking for then it seems like something which should be on the roadmap (even if it is down the road a little bit). If it is possible to handle the calls in Transcript then it makes the implementation that much cleaner and means I just have to browse the Windows API online rather than opening up my compiler and putting together an external.
-- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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