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Sunday, April 14, 2002

Pamela I'm working on Pamela, an Instant Outliner client. I know I said I'd work on Lua, but I really wanted to see if I could get an IO client going. I've got it getting the file from the http server, parsing the results (with my own simple XML parser - that pretty much worked as is), and displaying it in a hierarchical listbox. But I'm kind of not liking the way instant outlining works. Unless I really don't get how this stuff is supposed to work, it appears that the opml file is just sitting on the http server ready GET. But I have to GET the whole thing. What if it's really big. I really wish I could get just parts of it. Perhaps it could be some kind of folder structure. That way I could get just the parts I want. The archive, for example, could be left on the server and I'd just get the new stuff. comment ()  4:04:51 PM  #   Lua plug-in for REALbasic I've been reminded that my next big project should be my Lua plug-in. Lua is a really cool scripting language. It is very easy to get Lua running on pretty much any platform as it is written in easily-ported ANSI C. I got it building for the Mac and decided to write a Lua development environment in REALbasic called Stella (get it ... Stella Lua). More recently I released just the Lua plug-in so people could write their own Lua development environment. There's just one problem. For technical reasons I do not yet support Lua I/O in my Lua plug-in. It's gonna take some work to get that working. So I guess I should just roll up my sleeves and, well, you know... comment ()  9:10:05 AM  #

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