winkler@Apple.COM (Dan Winkler) (05/23/88)
> Hypertalk has nothing to do with XCMDS or XFCNS. HyperTalk is the HyperCard > programming language. XCMDS and XFCNS is an interface that allows external > programmed modules to be stuck into HyperCard. Completely different beasts You're entirely wrong about that. HyperTalk and XCMDs are as closely related as they could possibly be. I designed XCMDs to be just like HyperTalk handlers except written in a compiled language. They have the same calling interface as HyperTalk handlers, all the same abilites to send messages and evaluate expressions, and exist in the same inheritance hierarchy.
chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (05/23/88)
>> Hypertalk has nothing to do with XCMDS or XFCNS. HyperTalk is the HyperCard >> programming language. XCMDS and XFCNS is an interface that allows external >> programmed modules to be stuck into HyperCard. Completely different beasts >You're entirely wrong about that. HyperTalk and XCMDs are as closely >related as they could possibly be. I designed XCMDs to be just like >HyperTalk handlers except written in a compiled language. They have >the same calling interface as HyperTalk handlers, all the same abilites >to send messages and evaluate expressions, and exist in the same >inheritance hierarchy. Bad choice of words on my part. Sorry. (What I meant to say was....) Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ Robert A. Heinlein: 1907-1988. He will never truly die as long as we read his words and speak his name. Rest in Peace.
lombardi@cshl.org (Diane Lombardi in Hershey) (02/06/91)
I need some information on XCMD's. I am fairly new to HyperCard so any information would be a great help. I am using HyperCard as a graphical interface to a bunch of C (MPW C) routines. These routines in turn send calls to a database (via Sybase-DBLib), which resides on a SparcStation. I am unable to link all of the object code and libraries into one segment (which is required for an XCMD). I keep getting an error message that says: Link: Error: PC-relative edit: Offset out of range Any ideas ?? Please send response to lombardi@cshl.org Thank-you in advance !!!! Diane Lombardi Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories