Forgot to ask…
02-Sep-93 11:43:15
Sb: #55943-Forgot to ask…
Fm: Yost Group 76702,413
To: Marion K. Marks 70700,2777
Actually, it was a very deliberate design decision to make BXP's
interface-less. The entire POINT of them was to provide a transparent way of
loading any file format. The way they work is, if you've got an AVI.BXP
sitting out there, the bxp searches for whenever you look for AVI files and
then just converts them as if the AVI file format was designed into the
program. You don't have to know about buttons or anything… just select the
file and go. (bxp's don't put up their own buttons; you just select them from
the file selector list)
I've got an entire design document around here somewhere discussing why we made
these decisions. Perhaps after we ship R3 I can dig it up for you.
– G
PS: If you want to configure a bxp to do something special, you can use a pxp
that writes a configuration file. We ship a couple of examples with R3 that
show how this is done.