Active X support

[tkuypers at pandora.be]

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




> From: "Chipp Walters" <chipp at chipp.com>
> Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 22:56:14 -0500
> To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: RE: Active X support
> 
> Edwin,
> 
> Back in my Mac days with SuperCard, if an XCMD wasn't available, I'd
> commission one. Pretty easy to write and one could usually pass the cost on to
> the customer. If there's a specific ActiveX control you'd like to see, why
> don't you just ask someone to write it?
> 
> Tuviah and Chris (my partner) have both looked into the 'ActiveX wrapper for
> MC' issue, and I believe both have come to the same conclusion... while it is
> *possible*, it's a lot of work and similar functions can be done with much
> less coding on a case by case basis. Also, both Scott Raney and the RR folks
> believe if the function is necessary enough, it should find it's way into the
> engine.
> 
> best,
> 
> Chipp
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com
>> [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Edwin Gore
>> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 8:23 PM
>> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>> Subject: Active X support
>> 
>> 
>> This was brought up again recently, and a while back when I was
>> looking at adding freeDB support to my CD cataloging application,
>> and I never got a firm answer for it, so I'm going to ask again.
>> 
>> Are there any plans to add ActiveX support to metaCard/RunRev? It
>> seems like a no brainer since it would improve compatibility with
>> legacy ToolBook apps, and since there is already support for the
>> Mac-only XCMD standard. Adding ActiveX support would open up
>> access to thousands of extremely useful ActiveX controls that
>> have been developed for all sorts of purposes.
>> 
>> I decided to get RunRev because I wanted somethign that I could
>> use to teach my daughter progamming concepts - I have not idea
>> how to *really* program though, so creating my own Rev externals
>> is pretty much out of the question, even though a lot of the
>> ActiveX things I am interested have source code and could
>> probably be adapted to RunRevs externals architecture, I ddon't
>> have the skill to do that myself..being able to access ActiveX
>> would allow me to do a whole bunch of neat stuff that I can't do
>> on my own.
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