17 October 2007, 00:22 | #1 |
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ARexx <-> ActiveX Bridge
I have asked Toni this a time ago in private email, so it may be pretty pointless to mention it another time. However, as I find the idea very intriguing, I thought, some of you may have interesting comments on it.
As you may know, Windows has its own scripting thing. It is marketed at admins mostly (and thus misplaced, since it can do much more) but neverless pretty interesting. ActiveScript, ActiveX or Windows ScriptHost (WSH). Basically it is a technology, that allows you to use your favorite language (as long as it has bindings for the Active stuff, as do VBScript, J(ava)Script, Ruby, PHP, Python, Perl, OpenObjectRexx, and a few others) for scripting any script-host (which would be ARexx-Host in the Amiga world) and using COM objects (shared libraries) in these. While the technology may seem more advanced, the practical use is much more limited, due to the lack of support on application programmers side, the lack of vision on MS side and the lack of a GUI toolkit for ActiveScripting (I did not yet try wxPython, may be a possibility). However, if you take a look at apps like Klient (www.klient.com) - an IRC client pretty damn close to AmIRC, I'd say - or editors like Zeus (www.zeusedit.com), WinAMP (with gen_activex installed), MediaMonkey, WMP, JR MediaCenter, SpeedCommander, GoogleDesktop and GoogleDesktopSearch, YahooWidgets, the whole MS Office stuff, IExplorer and others, some pretty interesting things could be done.
Now if you take this and mix it with the Pubscreen open on Windows Desktop feature (that won't be implemented either , what could this mean ? Oh my good Lord ! P.S. Where is the Boingball smiley ? Last edited by amix; 17 October 2007 at 14:45. |
17 October 2007, 07:07 | #2 |
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I have wanted this same feature forever.
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17 October 2007, 10:54 | #3 |
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There is something partially like this to be found on aminet that allows starting windows programs from within the emulated enviroment but not the other way around.
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17 October 2007, 11:15 | #4 |
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17 October 2007, 14:44 | #5 |
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smoorke, this is very nice. Thanks for pointing this out. Still, as YoJoe! said, it's not quite the same (but much better than nothing).
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17 October 2007, 19:36 | #6 |
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I am not interested, sorry for standard answer
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18 October 2007, 01:28 | #7 |
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I know ;-) (We talked about it <45E32D55.4030807@winuae.net>)
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