Subject: Re: AbiWord for Macintosh
From: Jeffrey J Barbose (barbose@howland.com)
Date: Fri Feb 04 2000 - 18:28:19 CST
At 6:28 PM -0600 2/4/00, Bryan Prusha wrote:
> That's good. I'm all for exploring our options. I just wonder if
>that's necessarily part of the game plan for AbiWord. Could somebody
>enlighten me as to wether AbiWord embedability may become a priority in the
>future?
i'm not saying that it's a priority now. i'm simply saying that it's
another benefit to using PowerPlant.
add to that:
-- many people already know and use PowerPlant
-- there are already contributed archives for PowerPlant
-- no need to rewrite all the boilerplate stuff
-- it's object oriented instead of structural.
-- in the shorter term, PowerPlant will be fully Carbonized.
>
>At 17:31 -0600 2/4/00, Jeffrey J Barbose wrote:
>>uhh...having a UI is a necessary thing, isn't it?
>>
>>and this kind of 'embeddability' comes for free, at least w.r.t.
>>other powerplant apps...
>>
>>i'm just adding arguments for going with PowerPlant as the basis for
>>our LAUNCHABLE applcation.
>>
>>
>>At 5:33 PM -0600 2/4/00, Bryan Prusha wrote:
>>>At 16:42 -0600 2/4/00, Jeffrey J Barbose wrote:
>>>>i might also add that if many of the visual components are written as
>>>>LView or LPane descendants, then AbiWord can also be an embeddable
>>>>facility in OTHER PP apps...
>>>
>>> Perhaps we should get the app to launch before we worry about being
>>>embeddable in other apps.
>>>
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