Active X support

[tkuypers at pandora.be]

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 <stephenREVOLUTION at barncard.com>
> Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 00:35:18 -0700
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> 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
>> 
>> 
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