1. Invoking the stand-alone builder ??? 2. User-defined types.

[Mathewson]

Here's where things get tough . . .

1.  I could just call the standalone builder by sending a
'doMenu' command.

or

2.  Invoke it rather like one can use 'Create' to make a
new instantiation of an object.

No. 1 is no good from my point of view because it means
that a front-end is tied to a particular version of RR or
MC.

As I cannot 'unfold' the standalone builder in any version
of RR has anybody any ideas about how to build standalones
by direct commands . . .

e.g. on mouseDown
          create standAlone of type MacOSX from stack
"MyStack"
       end mouseDown

yeah, yeah; I know that's pretty naive and goofy, but it is
to illustrate the point of what I want to do rather than my
expecting a tidy one-line command!

-------

Changing the subject slightly . . .

I vaguely remember reading something about user-defined
types on the list . . .

That is an idea that would take RR/MC away from being a
totally object-based lang. to an object-oriented one: and
if that were to happen all sorts of other things would come
up as well such as INHERITANCE.

I spent a large part of last year learning Visual Basic 6
as part of my, extremely crappy, MSc at Abertay; most of
which seemed to involve a mixture of the DBas9 Basic I
learnt at 14 in 1976 (!!!) and a sort of cheap version of
xTalk.

HOWEVER; the advantage of being able to knock up user
defined objects was a good thing.

I have not had the opportunity to look at VB.net.  However,
I do believe that Microsoft products TEND to be botch-jobs
and feel that xTalk really ought to be showing the way to
VB rather than the other way round.

------

I hope lots of users on the list will respond to both these
points.

Love, Richmond
---------------------------------------------------------------
The Think Different Store
http://www.thinkdifferentstore.com/
For All Your Mac Gear
---------------------------------------------------------------