Yes Randall, but someone still had to invent the steam engine. I was
just pointing out that if you are planning on actually doing this,
you'll have to get your hands dirty in C (or something at that level).
Have you done the research to know if these "system level events" even
exist as you envision them?
Your enthusiasm is appreciated, don't get me wrong -- but, well, is
this something you want to do, or were just hoping someone else would?
Thank god people had horse drawn carriages before the train. Else
people would have recomended away from steering wheels in
automobiles... "do we really want people to have that much control
over the direction of their vehicle?" "...they could steer it into
danger!". All of which is true. But is it a logical and measured
arguement against the benefits of personally directed
transportation. Spam sucks too... but does it argue against having
access to the profound benefits of email? There is a trash can on
my desktop... nothing about it provents me or anyone else from
dragging all of my folders into it... But i dont have nightmares
about loosing my mind and doing so any more than i have nightmares
about steerong my car off a cliff for no reason. Hell, people in a
democracy could vote for ron paul if they wanted to... should we
adopt a dictatorship to provent such an eventuality? There are a
million ways to prevent the missuse of access to system level
events... the stupidest would be to avoid it completely. Just my
opinion. For what it is worth. Randall
-----Original Message-----
From: "Brian Yennie" <bri...@qldlearning.com>
To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution@lists.runrev.com>
Sent: 1/19/2009 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: externals
Randall,
Unfortunately it seems you are looking for a high-level API to take
care of a very low level job. There simply isn't an API for
everything. You are probably going to have to get your hands dirty in
C if this is your goal. If you know the OS APIs you want to tap into,
you could work on building externals in C. If you don't, time to do
some research =). You will definitely need to build separate externals
for each operating system as well.
Maybe not what you were hoping for, but I hope that helps.
QuickKeys is cool... but it doesn't offer finder events as triggers
for the execution of macros. There is no way, for instance, to tell
it:
When a user saves any file, from any application, and the name
contains "Entropy", then save an alias at "Hard Drive: My Entropy
Docs:"
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