| From: | Rafael Vicar�a Alloza |
| Date: | 20 Sep 2000 at 21:18:49 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Hotkey Config/Need suggestions |
Hello Michiel,
On Wednesday, 20-Sep-00, 13:00:26,
<open@amiga.com> wrote about:
RE: AMIOPEN: Hotkey Config/Need suggestions:
> I am not an expert but I would like to add my comments.
> Why not consider to store configs in XML datafiles?
> With XML you can store the keyindexes/whatever and easily retrieve it
> too. I am only educated in the Evil Empire' from Redmonds tools and
> not much else.. I suggest, use Java to read XML datafiles. The SDK can
> translate Java bytecode to .00 tools, which should be includeable in
> VP apps. Since there is no know XML capabilities in the
> SDK/Tao/whateveritscalled take the shortcut with Java.
Very good suggestion indeed, IMHO.
> I havent done much (hardly any) investigations on what you can't do
> with Java & XML but thanks to Java there are a lot of more capabilites
> open to us Amigans.
And since XML is sort of a "structured ASCII", it's still ASCII,
readable and understandable by humans. With all the further capabilities
of XML, which should not be few.
> Using Java somehwere you probably do not have to reinvent the wheel.
Yep! And you don't need binary config files either... B-)
Best regards
---Rafa
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