Re: API

2015-03-24 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-03-23 20:41, Michael Doub wrote: I am still trying to figure out how the "bind to ... " works. Some where there has to be a linkage between this "bind" step and the OS level library, So at run time, the library is loaded into memory and the final address resolution takes place. This i

Re: API

2015-03-23 Thread Michael Doub
Richmond, This maybe the blind leading the blind, but here is my take. Hopefully someone will correct me. Take a look at ~/livecode/libscript/src/foreign.mlc. Here is where foreign types are defined. Now take a look at ~/livecode/libscript/src/math.mlcNote that "use com.livecode.fore

Re: API

2015-03-23 Thread Richmond
On 23/03/15 12:30, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 2015-03-22 22:59, Peter W A Wood wrote: Richmond I believe that Richard’s “providing OS API access” is a simplification, probably an over simplification, of “providing the ability to access the OS API”. As I understand, LiveCode Builder will allow us

Re: API

2015-03-23 Thread Peter W A Wood
Thanks, Peter > On 23 Mar 2015, at 18:30, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > On 2015-03-22 22:59, Peter W A Wood wrote: >> Richmond >> I believe that Richard’s “providing OS API access” is a >> simplification, probably an over simplification, of “providing the >> ability to access the OS API”. As I under

Re: API

2015-03-23 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-03-22 22:59, Peter W A Wood wrote: Richmond I believe that Richard’s “providing OS API access” is a simplification, probably an over simplification, of “providing the ability to access the OS API”. As I understand, LiveCode Builder will allow us to write code which can directly call an O

Re: API

2015-03-22 Thread Peter W A Wood
Richmond I believe that Richard’s “providing OS API access” is a simplification, probably an over simplification, of “providing the ability to access the OS API”. As I understand, LiveCode Builder will allow us to write code which can directly call an OS API but, of course, we will need to defi