! MouseHole 1.3 on its way -- let's talk about it

[why the lucky stiff]

Okay, I've just checked in the new user script code, which uses a little 
bit of mettyklass spongery to clean things up.  Please try it out with 
yer user scripts and tell me if it breaks things bad.  There is one 
incompatibility with the Writeboards user script which couldn't be 
helped and that's okay.  It's minor.

The hardest thing to get used to is that the scripts now act much more 
like class definitions since they are evaluated in the scope of a 
mediklasss.  So, for example, if you're trying to do something like this 
in the definition:

  @link = "<a href='#{self.mount}'>Click!</a>"

That won't work any more.  You're going to want to set those up in 
`initialize'.

= TODO!! =

I really need help with a few items IF ANYONE CAN SPARE A MOMENT!  There 
are basically two things I'd really like to wrap up and I am desperate 
for your unique talents and grace!!

1. The Net::HTTPIO class is slow and blame awful.  It needs a recode.  
It's only ninety-eight lines long, so it's not too much work really.  
But I really need another approach.  This is the lynchpin on MouseHole's 
success.  If we speed this up and keep it from blockin threads, then 
we're basically fast.

2. I need some kind of a way for scripts to call each other.  For 
example, what if the Hoodwink'd script could store little commands in 
MouseCommand??  That would be nifty and let's spoil me!  Maybe we could 
expose methods to other scripts like:

   export :add_mouse_command do |cmd|
   end

Anyway, yank from Subversion.  I am on travels right now, so I'm not 
around much, but sometime tomorrow for sure.

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