[openbeos] Re: our own language

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 01:11:00 +0100 (MET)

> I'd like a Viewer system, like the Translation Kit, but that provides 
> views for an arbitrary data type. IMHO, this is what replicants were 
> supposed to be. This way, I could say new Viewer("/boot/home/
> foo.mp3"), 
> and it would put in a MediaView (Something else sorely lacking now). 
> If 
> it was new Viewer("/boot/home/foo.html"), an HTML display. etc, etc

I think the Translator Kit was planned to do this as well - and the 
AmigaOS provides the datatypes.library which does this exactly.
And the "Percolator" project is also something very similar.

Adios...
   Axel.



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