[interfacekit] Re: Wid-gits

> >The lamentation was because, I thought it would be neat if
> >you could reroute calls to the app_server (from windows, widgets, et
> >cetera) across a network (and I guess XWin does this) and to an 
> app_server
> >somewhere else.  But I guess you can do that anyway (heh) -- just send
> >them to a different port, or, as BMessages instead...  In any case, 
> it's
> >not that hard at all.
> 
> Bingo!  Although I personally have absolutely no *real* use for this 
> sort of thing, I'm pretty gung-ho on making it happen (yes, post-R1) 
> just so I can interact on my system with an interface for an app running 
> on another one.  For some crazy reason, that just stinks of cool to me. 
> =)

Actually, useful, too, since a place like a university can licence a
program like XMaple and have it run on a server somewhere and just do
multiuser running, and check IP addresses to make sure the user is kosher.

There really isn't anything stopping us from implementing this with the
current round of BeOS, and MUSCLE, except for the fact that the internal
messaging system is undocumented.

Isaac

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