From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14152 invoked by alias); 18 Nov 2003 21:28:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 14126 invoked from network); 18 Nov 2003 21:28:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp802.mail.ukl.yahoo.com) (217.12.12.139) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Nov 2003 21:28:20 -0000 Received: from adsl-64-175-251-31.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net (HELO odysseus.peterslan) (sampln@sbcglobal.net@64.175.251.31 with plain) by smtp1.bt.mail.vip.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Nov 2003 21:28:18 -0000 Subject: Re: Mono, anyone? From: Lincoln Peters To: Eric McDonald Cc: Xconq list In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1069190894.29637.105197.camel@odysseus.peterslan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 21:47:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003/txt/msg00778.txt.bz2 On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 13:01, Eric McDonald wrote: > Hi Lincoln, > > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Lincoln Peters wrote: > > > * Allow Xconq to talk to a other application. This may initially sound > > silly, but imagine how much easier it might be to play games such as > > bellum.g if you could use a spreadsheet to represent various aspects of > > your empire (particularly such things as supply of 'c') using charts. > > This sounds like a good idea. Gnome (and I think Qt, as well) has > an embedded object architecture, iirc. And, of course, Microsoft > does, so one could instantiate a MSExcel object within Xconq, for > instance. But as a cross-platform solution goes, I would have to > look; maybe the Ximian stuff is such; I will look at it. I didn't get a chance to attend LinuxWorld in San Francisco this year, but it sounds as if Ximian is still going strong on this project (I heard that Mono received some kind of award, something like "#1 open source project of the year"). And I expect that if they reasonably* can, they'll use the same protocols as Microsoft applications, so that you could just as easily embed MS Excel into Xconq as you might embed Gnumeric. * It's a totally different story if Microsoft refuses to disclose the protocols, the protocols contains myriad security holes, or it is grossly inefficient. > > > It might not be quite so bad for Xconq to behave (to some extent) like > > an office application. > > As long as Xconq Office does not have any annoying office > assistants, such as Clippy, the Ammo Clip. Although I suppose that, in some games, it might be interesting to have a comparable assistant. Perhaps Julius the military adviser could offer free advice to those who play roman.g. But I think we can all agree that, if such a thing is to ever be implemented, it should be manually enabled and set up by the game module and easily turned off by the player. Of course, it would open the door for a new generation of incredibly annoying game modules ("You are about to send 1 infantry against 3 legions. Its chance of survival is 15%. Do you want to proceed?").