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From: pete@violet.berkeley.edu (Pete Goodeve)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Button Boxes via ReXX
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Date: 19 May 88 07:35:44 GMT
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In article <2537@louie.udel.EDU> rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich) writes:
>I had a thought (first one of the year?) last night after looking
>at Tom Rokicki's AReXX version of Emacs. The idea is that with
>AReXX and things that support Arexx you can build button boxes.
>A button box is a box with labelled buttons. People build them

This is exactly one of the things I think the IPCMessage protocol would
be good at.  The idea would be that clients that wanted to act on buttons
would send messages to the "box" asking it to install such and such a
button.  The box would send a suitable message to the client when that
button was hit.  Alternatively the box could itself be a client, with
a fixed set of buttons; the action taken when a button was hit would then
depend on which (if any) server had been assigned by the user to respond
to it.

  -- Pete --