Re: Fwd: Cocoa IDE v1 project

>  > Would it be difficult to generalize the editor to handle things other
>>  than text, e.g., image, movies, etc.?
>
>As far as I remember from my own Fred customization efforts, the 
>underlying data- and display model is very much constrained to text 
>and characters. Display and click-handling with non-text data is well 
>beyond the scope of the current implementation. A first step up would 
>be to allow non-character objects in the data, while still displaying 
>these as text. These could then be displayed as hypermedia links in 
>the text. Next step could be to let same objects display inline with 
>text flowing around, but that's a larger upgrade.

Text flowing around the object sounds good but just having the object 
take up vertical space would suffice initially.

>My general wish for the Cocoa IDE effort is that there are well 
>planned hooks for us developers to extend and customize the 
>functionality. For example, it would be great if the Fred datamodel 
>supported arbitrary non-character objects in the text, with a defined 
>interface for how these integrate and display, but without their 
>implementation having to be part of the initial IDE project.
>
>-- Terje Norderhaug

Excellent idea!
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