External SDK

[Trevor DeVore]

On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 11:19 AM, Alex Rice wrote:

> On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 07:17  AM, Trevor DeVore wrote:
>
>> I just went to http://www.metacard.com/get.html and downloaded the 
>> external samples from there.  I also downloaded metacard to test the 
>> sample external with and everything worked fine except on OS X you 
>> need to change the name of the compiled bundle to "external" rather 
>> than "external.bundle" for it to work with the sample metacard stack. 
>>  Creating externals with these samples has worked in Rev 2.0 as well.
>
> Also remember that on Mac, the binary format used by metacard has 
> changed from CFM to Mach-O. The programming interface for externals is 
> the same, I guess, but they will need to be recompiled to work on Rev 
> 2.0.
>
> I remember reading Jeanne is working on some SDK tutorials and such. 
> How is it coming? :-)

The externals available from the MetaCard website have been updated to 
work with the latest engine on OS X.  There is a Project Builder 
project that you can use.

Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com