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Joe

Company Mail wrote in message <353A0057.9E1E5CFF@planet.dk>...
>Kwok Hung Lee wrote:
>
>> 1) Can lingo act like as worksheet to store and calculate the data( like
>> Ms- Excel), if it can, how?
>> 2) how to add a tools bar to the top of the screen?
>> 3) does lingo have the searching and data storage functions? if it can ,
>> how?
>
>
>Lingo is pretty powerful and can do almost anything that you can describe
with
>it. With the addition of extensions written in C or C++ (called Xtras) all
the
>gaps are fillable.
>
>In itself, Lingo is a lower level language than you might be expecting
which
>closely resembles Applescript and hypertalk and distantly derives from
>Smalltalk and LISP. It fully supports Object Oriented structures, in many
ways
>more flexibly than Java or C++, though the documentation of OO is rather
poor.
>
>Though lingo itself operates at a level comparable with Java
(interpretation
>of precompiled bytecode) its "wrapper", Director, provides a pretty high
level
>interface which takes care of pixel blitting, media import and storage,
>windowing and so on.
>
>This means that you would probably have to code a spreadsheet yourself. If
I
>am not mistaken though, I think I heard about an Xtra which allows you to
open
>Excel spreadsheets in a Director executable, if not, there are other Xtras
>which will allow you to communicate with external applications. Director by
>itself can open external apps, though communication is limited unless you
can
>use Applescript.
>
>If, by "Toolbar" you mean a menu, you can do this very easily using Lingos
>"installmenus" command, which is fully documented.
>
>Searching is another thing you would have to code yourself, but data
storage
>is very well supported. There are a full range of built in datatypes
including
>various kinds of array (or lists as they are called), both fixed size and
>dynamic. Data can be freely stored and retrieved in external files as well
as
>in internal resources and RAM.
>
>Lingo is not a difficult language, but you can expect to take a good six
>months to become at all competent. Within a year you can be a power user.
>
>Brennan
>
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