[REBOL] Re: facts we will have to face ...
From: ammonjohnson:yah:oo at: 24-Oct-2001 17:36
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From: "Porter Woodward" <[pwoodward--cncdsl--com]>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 7:35 AM
Subject: [REBOL] Re: facts we will have to face ...
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> Even this would be a PITA. I'm not sure, but somehow I doubt that
> REBOL/View in any form has a great amount of compatibility with the
> underlying OS and APIs. On Windows, the playback area of the media player
> is a pretty special display viewport - trying to embed that into a
> REBOL/View interface could be impossible w/o some serious changes to the
> engine (just guessing here). While one could use a codec library to
> decompress and hand back display information to REBOL - you'd then have to
> have a REBOL native routine to translate those bytes into something the
> /View engine could handle...
You got me thinking, & Holger will have to answer this one. (if it is
answerable) It would be cool to provide some sort of STYLE? (not sure I am
using the right terminology) that would allow for redirecting the display of
different programs into them.