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From: leue@galen.crd.ge.com (Bill Leue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: XTND's for Claris Products
Keywords: Claris, MacDraw, XTND
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Date: 15 Dec 89 13:39:55 GMT
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Reply-To: leue@galen.crd.ge.com (Bill Leue)
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A recent Mac monthly ( I forget which one) had a short blurb on Claris's
plans to incorporate something called 'XTND's (I think that was it) in
all their products.  There wasn't much detail given, but I'm guessing that
this would be some way of linking external procedures into the product,
similar to Hypercard's XCMD's.  Does anyone know anything about this?
The idea is really exciting to me, because I've always thought that
MacDraw II could be used as an ideal graphical front end to all kinds of
design tools, if only one could link graphics objects to some kind of
data dictionary.

Perhaps someone from Claris might like to comment, seeing as how it's been
announced already.

-Bill Leue
leue@crd.ge.com