[openbeos] Re: Replicants
- From: "alex" <alex@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:11:25 -0800
I have been thinking a bit lately about developing applications where the UI
was a flash movie. Granted the beos flash plugin is outdated (and maybe not
fully functional?) But if it was this easy to embed flash in a window and
open an xml stream with it.....that would be a really quick way to make some
dead sexy UIs....
Alex
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[mailto:openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Michael Phipps
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 4:23 PM
To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [openbeos] Re: office suite(s)
>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?
Replicants can and should be *huge*.
Think about, oh, let's say, building a windowed game (i.e. not full screen).
You want an opening movie? You could embed a MediaPlayer replicant.
Online chat for the game? How about a (theoretical) OBOSChat client
embedded.
Help? Embed Net+/Mozilla/whatever.
>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.
It can. BeHappy does this. Other apps could. The tough part is making sure
that
the application that you want to embed is already on the system.
>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".
Sure. the drag/dropness of replicants isn't *as* useful as the embedability.
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