Yeah, I know: no one likes to make the first post. :) So tell me: What's wrong with the preliminary spec? Or is it even a worthwhile approach? What do you...
Howdy Thanks for starting this up Richard. I don't know if anyone here ever played with my old script library but it attempted to do something close to this ...
... ever played ... this ... system. My concern with using scripts is that a script-based system is limited to components which are unlocked. Most components...
... How about other dependencies, like externals or external files? These could be done as: uEMCI["externals"] uEMCI["files"] or combine all three (libraries,...
... Yes, dependencies on anything stored externally can be critical and should be accounted for. I like the suggested format, very much like stackFiles. -- ...
Howdy Sorry about the slow response, still recovering from certain festivities... ... Right you are. ... Oh.. my understanding was that one of the properties...
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Apr 7, 2005 5:50 am
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First I'd like to welcome the new members who joined in the last week... thanks for joining revInterop and being willing to participate in formulating some...
One last note - as you can tell from the Files area, the first draft was in a file called "EMCI.txt", and the second in "ECMI2.txt". Although "EMCI" rolls off...
Hello group Great job Ken and others for all your work on this initiative and other Rev community development efforts you take part in. I read over the...
... Actually it's a lot harder than you might think for this to happen. I ran several tests where I added custom properties and scripts to a group, ungrouped...
Hmm, I can't seem to make the group props disappear right now either, but have seen it happen in the past! I may be mistaken, because as you say, if you...
... Do the properties survive closing the stack and quitting? It is sort of amazing that the object (group) does not exist but the properties stick around...
... I tested - they survive saving a stack, but do not survive closing and quitting. Still... pretty cool, though! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site:...
Hi I tried a few things too and one observation is that the "next" group to be created, "after" ungrouping an existing group, gets the original groups' props...
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Apr 8, 2005 6:21 am
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Hi Ken, ... I read carefully your file and Dick's additions. First, bravo! Some general feeling about metadata elements: Stage left, exhaustiveness AND rigour...
... They don't survive closing a card. Close the stack (if its destroyStack is true), or use delete stack to remove it from memory, or go to another card...
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Apr 8, 2005 7:23 pm
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... To paraphrase Voltaire, "Perfect is the enemy of results." :) ... accept ... be ... Agreed. The highest priority with this spec has been the core principle...
... The W3C uses the word "recommendation" for what it would require if it could require anything. How about using "recommended" and "suggested" instead of ...
After reviewing the suggestions made by Dick Kriesel, I realized that it would be beneficial if the ECMI document was able to support styled text. So I'd like...
... I'll second it. As for RTF, yes -- provided we stick with the subset of style attributes also supported in the engine (we may want to incorporate it into...
... Down the road for tools like lib4W_ECMI and libSTS_ECMI? How about down the road to Monterey June 17? Many developers there could benefit from a ...
... Sorry, Dick, but I know you mentioned that in your revision of the spec as "Produce libSTS_ECMI or lib4W_ECMI for a developer to maintain the uECMI data in...
Here are suggestions for features of an ECMI library application, which might have a name like libSTS_ECMI or lib4W_ECMI: Menu of the all the developer's...
... Ah, I see what you're getting at. I think it wouldn't be an actual library, though, since those tend not to show GUIs, but an actual application that ...
... Either term's ok with me, as long as the software has features like those I listed. ... I see components that I buy (or use for free) as products from...
... Yes, a good PAD tool would be nice. I think someone on the list once mentioned working on one -- I would post a query to the use-rev list to see if anyone...
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