>> 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