I'm very confused in terms of where Ruud is heading with OLE. He's redesigning the syntax and it's looking good !

But (always the "but") - will he provide backward support for the old olefunc() commands ? Given the history of KiX - I imagine he will ? As well - any of the testing I've done with these new functions in the alpha release of Kix2K have failed miserably.

The OLE syntax in Kix2K will be much more intuitive and easy to learn - it will also blend in much better with the rest of the Kix language (right now - I think the OLE functions stand out like a sore thumb).

Using that OLE 101 example, this is how I see Kix2K OLE shaping up ...

code:

$KixCalc = CreateObject ( "Kixtart.Calculator")

$KixCalc.Number = 5

$KixCalc.MultiplyNumberBy ( "5" )

?"Result = " $KixCalc.Number

ReleaseObject ( $KixCalc )

I'm getting excited about Kix2K - I wonder how Rudd is making out with it - would be nice to see a newer Alpha version ?

Shawn.

[This message has been edited by Shawn (edited 07 December 2000).]