yoshi@cs.washington.edu (Yoshito Yamane) (05/11/91)
Hi. Being new to this news group, I may be asking about a topic that has already been discussed and settled. But anyway, here it goes. As a part of my RA work, I need to design an application architecture that allows simulation programs to be written as an independent Mac application for debugging and prototyping purposes, then remade with no change (or minimum changes) run under HyperCard and interact with the user through a HyperCard stack. (We plan to use this architecture so that special purpose programs written for teaching purpose can be incorporated into a HyperCard stack course material.) Is there any established architecutres to do such a thing? Or am I on my own to design it? Whatever feedback you can give is really appreciated. Yoshi (PS: I remember some discussion going on on issuing commands to an application launched by the open command. I had the same need and wrote a HyperCard stack that lets you record events from the event manager and play it back after launching an app, if anyone is interested. I know everyone would say wait for System 7, etc. But I guess waiting is not in my nature.)