DLL Absence

[Alex Rice]

On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 12:05  PM, Dar Scott wrote:
>  Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> the ability to make
>> direct system API calls right in the scripting language.
>
> One way to do this on Windows might be the ability to make arbitrary  
> DLL calls.  The problem here is that the call must be right.

This thread comes up every few months eh? :-)  ToolBook, Python,  
Director, Perl-maybe, all can do this. Rev needs to!

Any C programming guru who want to take a stab at it, might I recommend  
you could start with looking at Python's "calldll" [*] module which is  
open-source and does glue-to-and-call-an-arbitrary-dll (Win32 only).  
What are possibilities of getting a common transcript interface for  
accessing shared libraries for all of win/mac/unix?

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Maybe Tuviah and Scott are secretly implementing this feature and it  
will be in 2.1!

re: support- on the contrary I think it would be easier for RR to  
support a common interface instead of having people writing C code who  
wouldn't otherwise want, need, or be capable of learning such a  
low-level language.

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
http://ARCplanning.com