Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!bacchus!mwm From: mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia Subject: Re: Authoring Systems for Amiga Message-ID: Date: 26 Jun 91 16:09:02 GMT References: <1991Jun24.004403.13909@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <91175.075746AUBRI@ASUACAD.BITNET> <1417@cbmger.UUCP> Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 38 In-Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP's message of 25 Jun 91 17:51:35 GMT In article <1417@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes: In article <91175.075746AUBRI@ASUACAD.BITNET> AUBRI@ASUACAD.BITNET writes: >There are several authoring systems available for the Amiga. > > AmigaVision: Icon-based object oriented authoring. Please add: Full ARexx support (so yes, scripting possible) Unless it's been significantly enhanced since I looked at it, calling it "Full ARexx support" is really off base. "Barely Visible ARexx Support" would be closer. There's no ARexx support at all for composition; only when the application is running. There's no way for ARexx to directly control the application. Most specifically, you can't cause jumps to modules out of the flow of control; you can't access any of the power of AmigaVision from inside of ARexx; there's no easy way to export a database record. Nuts - all you can do set variables in the application, and get variables back. On yeah - you can get the version number of AmigaVision. Not being able to get to all the functionality of AmigaVision is a real pain. For instance, suppose I want to cause some image to be displayed from an ARexx script launched from AV. AV has an incredible amount of machinery for doing this kind of thing. None of it's available to the Rexx script. So I either have to have my own utilities to do this (which is bad, considering how memory-hungry AV is to start with), or wire all the special cases into the AV application.