[openbeos] Re: office suite(s)

>> p.s.: does OBOS/BeOS support anything like OLE, Bonobo or KParts, 
>> i.e.: embedding other programs' components?
>> 
>> Marco Zanon [http://www.marcozanon.com]

> seems to me that embedding other programs' components sounds an awful 
> lot like 'replicants'.  i'm no expert on replicants and sadly found it

> a seldom used feature of the OS but it seems to have serious
potential.  
> maybe it was incomplete?  i don't know.  but BeOS replicants like 
> dropping Net+ and SoundPlay on my desktop beat the hell out of M$ 
> ActiveDesktop any day.  if it can be extended to make it more like OLE

> (if it isn't already) then maybe this is where you should look.

Yeah, to be honest, I never saw the real point or value in replicants.
Ok, so it made for a good ActiveDesktop butt kicking, or would have, had
enough applications been 'replicantable'. But what is the point of them?
Ok, so I can drag a replicant of soundplay to other container
application... why would I do this? Can someone give me an example of
when I would want to do this?

To me it seems it would be a lot more valuable if an Application could
(by itself) request to have a system replicant embedded in it without
user interaction.

I mean wouldn't it be a lot more valuable for an application to say, "I
need to display some information in the form of html... I'll load the
Net+ replicant into myself and call up my page".

Maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way, can anyone care to explain?

Cheers,
Gavin James

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