> On Saturday, July 13, 2002, at 08:08 AM, KirkIsrael@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> There are a few advantages to an app, like the ability to save and open
> easily or access the system clipboard -- and [years and years and years]
> later, stuff like saving to your code's file, compiling, and starting up
> your emulator. But sure, you could do what I've got now (and, iirc,
> what Chris did) with dhtml right easily. I'd also given a little
> thought to learning Java 2d graphics to show what the player looks like
> while you're making it, but there's nothing stopping dhtml from doing
> that either.
Yeah...good thought re:the dhtml. I don't think a "saves directly to
file" will ever end up being worth the effort it would take to implement
though...
> > Maybe once I get 2600 101 done, I'll try my hand at that...much easier
> > to
> > install a webpage! ;-)
>
> But a lot phatter footprint to open a browser than a few quick
> utilities. Course the utilities need to do more than one afternoon's
> hacking worth of stuff to make it matter. :^)
Yeah, but if you have to instruct people to install a standalone
JVM...plus, if people are like me, they always have a browser
open anyway. I like how goofy and fun javascript is anyway
> Good luck with the javascript/dhtml version.
Well, I'm not the first person on this list to open up their
mouth with a "great idea" before knowing what the schedule for
implementation would be.... I can go on about the pros of a
javascript version all I want, but you're the guy with the
delivered code!
Hopefully pretty soon though...aargh, never enough freetime.
I got slightly wellknown in PocketC land for a
"BitmapBuddy" app I wrote in pocketC to edit graphics
and save them in that languages odd little bitmap string
format. This is kinda similar!
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"[World War I] changed the language. It made patriotic words
sound hollow, unacceptable, ridiculous" --Stephen E. Ambrose
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