Thanks Richard. Don’t worry you won’t be stopping me frorm adding LiveCode to a new version of BeOS. I do have some old BeOS ROMS & software but I have not used them in years.
Efficient bindings would suggest to me you could easily use C libraries and if LiveCode is written with libraries it might be reasonably easy for someone to add them but I am not the person for that job, plus I am busy trying to finish the program you gave me advice to speed up. Someone posted on here the first 90% of a program takes 90% of the time and the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time. I still have a few percent to finish so I do not have the time even if it is easy. JB > On Jun 12, 2016, at 2:51 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> > wrote: > > JB wrote: > > > I was reading a little about it and it said it is a open source > > OS built using JAM. Then I read a little about JAM and it said > > JAM has Efficient C bindings* > > Since LiveCode is written in C++ it might mean it could be > > incorporated easily. > > "Easily" is relative. > > LiveCode is not an island. It's a system that carefully factors our common > LiveCode Script to provide seven different sets of interfaces to underlying > OS calls. > > I suppose there are some things that are truly generic across platforms, but > anything touching GUI elements, file systems, or other OS-controlled things > are likely not so "easy" to write all over again for another OS. > > Haiku was originally BeOS, a wonderful system with many interesting and > somewhat advanced features. > > But after Apple passed on it in favor of the much-more-expensive NeXT, Be > languished, eventually becoming open source under a new trademark as HaikuOS. > > BeOS was an unusual system. I would imagine porting the LC engine to it > would be at least as expensive as porting the Mac build from Carbon to Cocoa, > but without any of Apple's tools or libraries to help. > > But then again I've never done C programming for BeOS. If it seems easy to > port LC to it don't let me stop you. :) > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
