#ARexx…Where Are Ports?
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I'm curious what others think about ARexx. Is it really a general
purpose solution to the problem of IPC between applications, or
does it have any major short-comings?
What are the applications that have the best ARexx ports? Are
there any public domain programs on-line here with ARexx ports?
What are some typical combinations of applications that users
here use ARexx to integrate?
I use AREXX all the time, as do many others here. I think the majority of
folks use it more as a superdooper script language or a macro language for just
one program. The IPC aspects have not been fully exploited.
I have made some minor forays into IPC. I have one invocation of TxEd
controlling another is a Whap-like thingy for other BBS's. Same thing for the
M2Sprint Modula 2 editor running a context sensitive online reference. I have
Microfiche Filer and DOS working together a lot (does that count?).
You do not need AREXX to conform and use the AREXX standard of IPC in your
programs. You could use it privately between your applications.
In what I consider to be a bizarre move, Mindware plans to release a version of
PageRender3D with NO user interface, just an AREXX port. Another Mindware
product, TASS (a hypercard-y thing for AREXX), can optionally be used to "roll
your own" interface – or not.
Good AREXX interfaces. If you can do *everything* with AREXX you can do with a
mouse and keyboard the AREXX interface is perfect, most programs need some
work. Of the programs I've seen TxEd+, WShell and Digipaint3 come closest to
that ideal. Microfiche Filer+ is good. The M2Sprint Editor is good. VLT is
poor (otherwise outstanding comm program). I can't comment on others. — Art
Will,
Well, it is currently a general solution to a lot of things, and at least a
partial solution to IPC. I say partial, because not all programs that could
benefit from ARexx IPC have ARexx ports.
I use CEDpro a lot, and have quite a few scripts that I can run from it to do
a variety of operations. My main use is for reading Usenet mail and articles,
replying to them, archiving them, and so on. With a few relatively simple
scripts, I can easily do thse things, invoking both ARexx scripts and other
programs that have no idea they were invoked by ARexx.
When 1.4 comes out, I expect ARexx to end up being THE solution to IPC, since
it will be part of the software bundled with the Amiga.
-larry
Thanks for the info on AREXX, Larry. What are some of the things besides IPC
that you see AREXX as a solution to? Regarding CEDpro: is that a comm package?
Who makes it and what does it cost? Do you know of any user groups in the San
Francisco Bay Area that have an AREXX SIG? What about bulletin boards with a
large number of AREXX scripts? Thanks, Will
CEDPro is a high performance text editor for programmers and writers. Its
second release is due out real soon now. CEDPro is rated as being among the
finest editors for any computer.
Perry,
Are you going to mail notices to registered users about the second
release? If so, could you check to see if I'm in your database…I sure think
I sent the registration card in….but it also may be sitting in this stack of
papers around here.
Don
Will:
You might also want to check out scripit, an IPC option written by one of our
members that can control ANY properly written Amiga program, whether or not it
has an AREXX port. AND — scripit itself has an AREXX port, so the two
together are dynamite.
I think the file for scripit is XIT12.lhz, or something close to that.
Ray Lewis