[REBOL] extending IE with Rebol was RE: Re: Easy-Vid
From: bry::itnisk::com at: 6-Jan-2004 11:38
>It might just be a question of patents. Maybe MS has patented loading
of >scripts on web pages or something else obscenely vague.
Well no actually Microsoft got sued by eolas:
http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=1065601616
The desire to have some sort of way of plugging rebol more closely into
Windows, especially the protocol architecture as handled via IE, was the
reason for the asynchronous pluggable protocol article:
http://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/17120
The rebol example in there is pretty trivial (not to mention being
spaghetti code), but I was hoping that others would have some ideas as
to how such a protocol should actually work.
If one of the things one wants is to just load .r files the protocol can
be used to pass info as to the location of that .r file and then load
it.
Last night I actually started doing a useful script to run when I call
reb:// 'addresses', I decided to have it have the structure
Reb://password=skjuiquig&gobject=window&oid=1576&oname=IEXPLORE.EXE&load
=myscript.r&exec=loadwindow http://www.rebol.com
A password would be obligatory, this way the script can keep track of
links authored locally, and those passed external to the system.
Depending on what the password and security settings are it would allow
one to do specific things.
The gobject parameter refers to various objects recognized by the script
that allows it to lock into the system. An object referencing window
tells you that the script wants to do something to a specific window.
Oid tells you the pid of the object passed (not necessary for each
object)
Oname tells you the image name of the object passed.
Load tells you what scripts to load, probably should be a list.
And exec tells you what code to execute.
In the example link above I'm thinking that the link tells the script to
get the window from which it was called, and to load that window with
the address www.rebol.com to be able to do stuff like pass an actual
windows id from IE, I'm extending the right click context menu, so
unfortunately it can't be 100% rebol.
Anyway, the scenario given above might not be the best way to do things,
and it may not be what people want. So other suggestions would be
welcome.
