From arthur@turing.ac.uk Thu Jul 4 12:17:34 1991 From: Arthur van Hoff Subject: COOL design document To: "The NeWS Toolkit group (core" , Rafael Bracho Date: Thu, 4 Jul 91 15:14:01 BST Cc: Tim Niblett , Jim Rudolf , Cathy Waite Hi Folks, We are sending you a PostScript document containing a proposal for the development of Cool. The document is a draft. We hope that with your help and comments it can be refined into an agreed specification for Cool over the next month or so. What we would like is some very rapid top-of-the-head feedback to help us move along. The document contains code but it is only illustrative, we're not proposing that you use it, just that you need something like it. It is a starting point for technical email discussion but it is also there to provide topics for our next meeting. You will find a detailed discussion of the following topics together with a proposed implementation (source included): - parent scope and container hierarchy - symbolic names - 'Send' primitive - client communication and application structure - resources - resource classes and script classes - persistence - cloning and renewing - saving and loading It has to be detailed because the problems are in the details. We believe that if you like this stuff it can be used as the basis for a full implementation of Cool. The summary section contains a list of technical problems which still have to be overcome. Guidance from you as to these would be appreciated. I am doing some more work on multi page windows and interactive editing. These topics will be discussed in future versions of the document. Comments over the next week or so would be greatly appreciated. Please mail them to arthur@turing.ac.uk. Have fun, -- Arthur van Hoff arthur@turing.ac.uk The Turing Institute 36 North Hannover street, Glasgow G1 2AD, +44 41 5526400 Beltstraat 94a, 7512 AB Enschede, Holland, +31 53 324366