11 - GEM Hooks and Hacks + An Insider's AES Tricks
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Professional GEM
· 28 May 2022
PROFESSIONAL GEM by Tim Oren Column #11 - GEM Hooks and Hacks + An Insider's AES Tricks Welcome to the eleventh episode of ST PRO GEM, which is devoted to exploring some of the little-documented, but powerful, features of GEM. Like the authors of most complex systems, the GEM programmers left behind a set of "hooks", powerful features which would aid them in enhancing the system later. I am going to lay out a number of these methods which have served me well in making creative use of the AES. You will find that most of them concern the object and form libraries, since I was most involved in those parts of GEM. There are probably many ...