Hi Greg, thanks for your reply
Le 13 mars 05, à 17:54, Gregory John Casamento a écrit :
I spoke with the creator of the project, Charles Jolley. And, from
looking at
the code, it appears that LinkBack's purpose is simply to enable an
application
to send data to another application, have that application edit/change
it and
return it. Here's what he said in his email to me:
That what I was deduced from the current code, but I wasn't sure.
"My brief review of the NSDataLink documentations leads me to think
it is geared more towards linking the content of one document to
another so that when one document changes, the other can be updated
automatically, rather link Publish and Subscribe on the Classic Mac OS.
LinkBack is more akin to object embedding in OLE, where data actually
lives in a document and can be sent back to another application to be
modified and returned."
His assessment of what datalink does is essentially correct. What
he's missing
is the concept of NSSelection, which can be made to describe a portion
of a
document.
There is extension like NSDataLinkPanel to inspect linked view objects
too and a richer document support, right ?
LinkBack is architecturally simpler than NSDataLink et al. I believe,
ultimately, that NSDataLink is a better solution (it will be, once it
finished).
It's my opinion too, but I have no real idea on how much work is needed
to have a usable implementation for NSDataLink, when you compare it to
the current LinkBack state ?… I would say it shouldn't way more
difficult because LinkBack isn't itself a complicated beast.
There is no better way to show them that it's not new than to finish
NSDataLink.
hehe sure :-)
I will work on it as much as I can, but if anyone else wants to
help me, they are very welcome to do so.
I would like to help you when I will have more time (I mean objects
flickering on the screen when I do 'openapp etoile&' ;-) or write a
compatibility layer for LinkBack at least… May be you can post a short
mail explaining what's still need to be done and where you would like
to have help.
Quentin.
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Quentin Mathé
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