* John Anderson <dearjohn_at_everchanging.com> [021007 20:50]:
> UI-wise, I'm working on making the UI as simple and extensible as
> possible. The bulk of the UI will be provided by the plug-ins
> themselves. The idea is to provide a framework by which people can
> connect to the Newton and get information from it via Cocoa. The gist
> of the XSync UI is this:
>
> http://www.everchanging.com/images/xsync-picture-1.png
I have recently moved from being a Palm user to being a Newton user.
The Newton almost completely replaces everything I did with my Palm.
One thing that I haven't been able to replicate so far is the Showtimes
application <http://showtimes.jrray.org/> , which allows me to keep an
up-to-date list of movies in local theaters on my Palm device. The
application consists of two pieces, a package on the Palm device which
has associated databases it reads and displays, and a Perl script that
runs periodically and downloads movie listings, parses them, turns them
into a Palm database, and then installs the database in such a way that
it gets uploaded the next time the Palm device is synchronized.
Would it be possible for me to write a Newton application, and
accompanying desktop script, and use your Sync API as a conduit for
uploading the current movie listings to the Newton? Or better yet,
fetching and parsing the movie listings on the fly when a sync is
requested? I am an experienced C, Java, and Perl programmer, and I am
currently teaching myself Cocoa and Objective-C. I guess NewtonScript
can't be *that* difficult.
-Scott
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