[ANN] HOOT: Hacked Object Oriented Transcript

[Geoff Canyon]

http://www.inspiredlogic.com/hoot/HOOT.html
Download: http://www.inspiredlogic.com/hoot/How%20It%20Works_files/ 
hoot.zip

Note this is a 0.1 release. In other words, it's a thought  
experiment. Feel free to try it out and make comments or suggestions.

regards,

Geoff

 From the rushed-together web page:

HOOT is a quick implementation of many of the features a true Object- 
Oriented implementation would provide, using less than 50 lines of  
Transcript. (I’m embarrassed at  how simple it was to get this far.)

Revolution already provides:
•Encapsulation (understand that I am using these terms loosely. if  
you think too loosely to make sense, let me know)
•Inheritance -- container based rather than class based
•Polymorphism

HOOT provides:
•Classes for objects
•Inheritance -- class-based, single inheritance, to any depth
•Class variables

HOOT To-Dos:
•Handle functions in classes
•Improve management of classes



How it works:

HOOT takes advantage of the container based inheritance that  
Revolution provides, by representing your class hierarchy as a set of  
nested groups on a card. Each group is named for the class it  
represents. Groups are nested to make the enclosed group a subclass  
of the group that contains it. Other properties of the groups: color,  
size, position -- are irrelevant.

To start the library, mark the checkbox “Installed.” To disable,  
click the checkbox to uncheck it.

Each group must have a custom property called uCustomHandlers that  
contains a comma-based list of the handler messages the group will  
define.

Each group’s script should contain the handlers it needs to do its  
job. Note that native messages should be prefixed with an “x”:  
“xMouseUp,xMouseDown,” etc.

Each group’s handlers should follow this format:

on xMouseUp pID
   delete char -1 of pID
   -- do the work here
end xMouseUp