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From: majors@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Majors)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: XCMD/XFCNs in HC & elsewhere: standardization?
Message-ID: <7262@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 9 Sep 90 17:14:45 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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Several XCMD/XFCN's that I use either definitely or probably will need
to be re-written to work in HC 2.0.  These are products like SoundAcess,
by Digidesign, and (possibly) The Voyager Videostack, by the Voyager
Company.  Will it ever become possible for X's to function properly
in HC upgrades without modification?  What about across platforms?
I'm having to jump through loops to get SoundAccess X's to work with
AuthorWare Professional, by Authorware.  What's involved here: is/will
there be a standard for applications and X's which programmers could
follow, so that compatibility would not be a problem, or is it more
complicated than that?

- Bob Majors   majors@u.washington.edu