'CanDo' What is it???
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Shoot me your address again in case the office didn't get the info to you
yet! I'll make sure you get it fast.
"Conditional" ARexx Objects is almost right. Imagine being able to
easily tell your program "Wait for string X to come into this ARexx port
and then do script Y". Scripts in CanDo can play sounds or start
BrushANIMs running or switch to new screens with completely different
interfaces.
I've seen the UltraCard browser also, and I can tell you one difference
between the two that may interest you (they are nothing alike at all,
really): CanDo uses the Amiga operating system. CanDo has gadgets, menus,
timers, etc., and they all go through the OS. This means that when you
have created a CanDo application you can know that it is as reliable as the
Amiga itself. We haven't tried to rewrite the way the Amiga works. It
also means that when CanDo programs aren't doing anything, they are doing
NOTHING. They take no CPU time when they are idle. Therefore, everything
about CanDo and the things you generate with it multitask beautifully.
The price for CanDo will be $149.95. It's a professional level product,
will come with a 100+ page manual, and 2 disks, one full of examples.
Martin,
I Just checked the mail today, but no info. I'm sending you my address
via EasyPlex. Thanks for the help !
I'm glad to hear it uses the Amiga OS. Why re-invent the wheel when
Michelin is around (working toward Pirelli). It sounds like I'm going to have
fun with this thing !!
Jim
UltraCard also uses the AMIGA OPERATING SYSTEM. UltraCard does NOT "MONITOR
MOUSE MESSAGES" it simply waits, just like CAN-DO for a message from the OS.
ULTRACARD is very multi-tasking!
Try to think of something else but don't speak to what you don't really know!
Mike,
I never said that UltraCard "MONITOR MOUSE MESSAGES". It's just that I
grabbed one of the Windows off of the UltraCard 1.0 browser demo with
PowerWindows and couldn't find any gadgets on it. The Menus were there, but no
Gadgets. Now this was on the rolodex screen, I think, and none of the fields
that appeared on the Window were represented by string Gadgets. I also noticed
that if I typed too far in the fields the characters extended out beyond the
field's visible area and I got a lot of garbage right below the field. This,
of course, is not the way that Intuition string Gadgets work.
I don't have your source code, so naturally I cannot really say exactly what
was going on, but it seemed that you were definitely substituting some of your
own code for a basic Amiga construct: The string Gadget. Is that not correct?
Anyway, relax. Of course UltraCard uses the OS, its running on an Amiga,
after all. My comment was meant for emphasis that CanDo utilizes and gives
access to nearly every major feature of Intuition and the rest of the OS like
no other software I've ever seen. Add to that that the software that runs its
scripts is under 100K and can be made resident, and I think we have one great
tool.
We don't even intend to compare our product with yours. I was just answering
a question.
-Martin