All experienced users of the language are encouraged to join this
list. This is the ideal forum to request the language features you
need without contributing to continuing fragmentation of the language
into multiple incompatible dialects. An xTalk language standard will
ease migration between tools, protecting your investment.
Topics likely to be discussed in the near future include:
1) the design of functions for doing substring replacements in text.
2) the design of an advanced "move" command that would support moving
multiple objects simultaneously, and acceleration and deceleration.
3) extensions to the language necessary for integration with Internet
protocols and data formats.
4) integration of functions available in the SuperCard "Xtend"
collection of XCMDs/XFCNs and other XCMD/XFCN collections into the
language.
5) object-oriented extensions to the language.
6) language extensions to handle database access (ODBC), inter-object
communcation (CORBA), and integration with component standards such as
OpenDoc and Java Beans.
Note that this is not a forum for asking questions about how to script
something, reporting bugs against any of the products, or any other
user-support level postings. Please join one of the tool-specific
mailing lists if this is what you need. Links to the WWW sites that
have links to these lists can be found in the MetaCard FAQ document on
http://www.metacard.com/.
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Scott Raney raney@metacard.com http://www.metacard.com
Any sufficiently advanced technology
is virtually indistinguishable from magic -- Clarke's law