a windows .net or vb com or dll interface for RR would be a cool bugzilla request... I thought about it a lot 3 years ago - but found there's a bunch of exe's you can call via shell calls that do it much easier...
A way to directly interface dll's calls would be nice too. User32.dll for one... What I mean is that many MS IO calls available in their "toolbox" is available for other programming languages. Why not Rev right? In RunRev you have to wrap them in an external but the process is tedious. CompileIt in HyperCard was a much better solution. But the problem is the compiler mapping of all the calls, symbols, etc, for each type of compile: W2K, WKP, W2K3 and all the CPU versions... Only a good compiler can add all those #defines... If RR already could register NT events for failures it would be a big plus. Currently there's no way (out of the external's debugger) to know what went wrong when something does. The sessionlog file could help but it doesn't much really out of the GUI context - AFAIK... A little google and you can find a zillion alternatives to any xcmd - sometimes with the source even! Check out www.shellcity.com for example. In my case, the NT resource kit allowed me to control anything in our servers, file structures, user accounts, you name it. I can even shell wsh if needed. But the exe's are the shortest route. Even for GUI applications like EnterpriseAdmin, DameWareNT, DFS, AD or NetBackup, calling shells is much more effective and "already coded" to avoid the extra work... It's just not elegant, i know... But it does just about anything! ;) Xa -- Nitrous Palettes and utilities for RunRev http://MonsieurX.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of paolo > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 09:28 > To: How to use Revolution > Subject: Control windows application - API > > Hi revs. > > Yesterday I went through a great voice over IP software called Skype > (www.skype.com) and I though it would be nice to set a button > on a rev stack to connect to this software and make a call. > Skype is a multi platform but unfortunately documentation > for developers is available only for windows. > I am mainly a MAC/Applescript user and I felt lost . I got > the API of > the program and I realized it was not an easy task. :-( > Then I found a link (http://www.geocities.com/skypeapi/) for > a "Skype API COM Wrapper" and it was said " The SkypeAPI > COM wrapper is an ActiveX "layer" around the Skype API . > It's designed to make it simpler for COM-client development > environments (VB, .NET, etc.) to communicate with Skype. I > thought that if it works with VB it should works also with > Rev. Am I correct? > > Can you help me on set up a plug in to connect to skype in Windows? > > Send me a message or call me on skype (my username is paolomazza) > > Have a good day. > > Paolo Mazza > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution