Chipp, Tuviah, Kevin, It is simply impossible to extend the engine with all functions... When having Active-X support, we have access to so much more... COM, DLL's VB API's a lot of Java-applets etc... The biggest problem (and I really loooooooooovvvvveeeeeeeeee working with RR) is using external commands & methods... We can't take advantage of all the work those very clever C++ or Java developers did, with Active-X support we can. No, I don't agree that it's not worth the coding, it will give us scanning-capabilities, image-rendering capabilities, custom encription, inter-application-communication, OCR, all usable from within RR projects... WE NEED THIS!!! Now I have to do those things in Visual Basic, compile them as executables, (collect a thousand VB DLLs etc) and run these small exe files through the commandline. Exchange of info between these programs and RR go via text-files and it works, but it is sooooo tricky to do this...
Please gang, give us the Active X support, it would solve a whole lot of trouble... Ton Kuypers > From: "Chipp Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 22:56:14 -0500 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Active X support > > Edwin, > > Back in my Mac days with SuperCard, if an XCMD wasn't available, I'd > commission one. Pretty easy to write and one could usually pass the cost on to > the customer. If there's a specific ActiveX control you'd like to see, why > don't you just ask someone to write it? > > Tuviah and Chris (my partner) have both looked into the 'ActiveX wrapper for > MC' issue, and I believe both have come to the same conclusion... while it is > *possible*, it's a lot of work and similar functions can be done with much > less coding on a case by case basis. Also, both Scott Raney and the RR folks > believe if the function is necessary enough, it should find it's way into the > engine. > > best, > > Chipp > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Edwin Gore >> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 8:23 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Active X support >> >> >> This was brought up again recently, and a while back when I was >> looking at adding freeDB support to my CD cataloging application, >> and I never got a firm answer for it, so I'm going to ask again. >> >> Are there any plans to add ActiveX support to metaCard/RunRev? It >> seems like a no brainer since it would improve compatibility with >> legacy ToolBook apps, and since there is already support for the >> Mac-only XCMD standard. Adding ActiveX support would open up >> access to thousands of extremely useful ActiveX controls that >> have been developed for all sorts of purposes. >> >> I decided to get RunRev because I wanted somethign that I could >> use to teach my daughter progamming concepts - I have not idea >> how to *really* program though, so creating my own Rev externals >> is pretty much out of the question, even though a lot of the >> ActiveX things I am interested have source code and could >> probably be adapted to RunRevs externals architecture, I ddon't >> have the skill to do that myself..being able to access ActiveX >> would allow me to do a whole bunch of neat stuff that I can't do >> on my own. >> _______________________________________________ >> use-revolution mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >> > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution