The term “Multi-finder” rung a bell but not very loudly. I knew it was a Mac thing but I wasn’t quite sure what anymore. I realized my loss of memory around this is probably an age thing when I looked it up and found the date that it debuted... way back in 1987. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiFinder. That was before the Berlin wall fell, remember that?
Martin Koob > On Feb 22, 2022, at 4:52 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Ever heard of a thing called, "Multi-Finder?" > > Bob S > > >> On Feb 21, 2022, at 12:23 , Richard Gaskin via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> Pi Digital wrote: >> >>> It’s so frustrating because I just spent the last week making my own >>> widget to make bar and pi charts. LOL! Now it feels like a futile >>> gesture with something far superior ‘just around the corner’. Your >>> teams have done a really good job of making them. >>> >>> I’ll get back to making more futile tools that will likely get >>> superseded by more of your work ;) >> >> This problem is as old as platforms themselves. Indeed much of Apple's early >> dev-facing communications (circa Mac v1.0-4.0) centered around clarifying >> their interests and their intentions for keeping the third-party opportunity >> as wide open as practical. >> >> Later on a form of Konfabulator was included as Widgets, a form of Delicious >> Library was included as iBooks, and the boundaries have been blurred forever >> since. >> >> This is understandable, whether we're looking at a vendor whose platform is >> an OS or a dev tool, as it's incumbent on them to provide a strong sense of >> feature-completeness wherever practical. >> >> When evaluating third-party opportunities, consider not only the LC world >> but also JavaScript. Integration between any GUI toolkit and web views is >> likely only going to increase going forward. >> >> As LC Ltd notes in their blog post, the new charts widget wraps chart.js, an >> open source package under MIT license. >> >> Many key ingredients in LC make use of open source code, and given the >> vast-and-growing range of open source packages for JavaScript we can expect >> more using that language over time. >> >> So next time you're thinking of an add-on for LC, also take a moment to see >> if such a thing is already available in JavaScript. If it is you just saved >> yourself the time otherwise needed to write it from scratch. >> >> -- >> Richard Gaskin >> Fourth World Systems >> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
