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Twyst,
I really like your concept (I've been following this thread for a bit). I
think that you'll a bit more powerful of a scripting language, though, in
order for a plug-in to be able to do anything useful. Trying to jump all
the way to javascript (or something like it) would probably be a bit
difficult (unless there's open source code available to parse and execute
it already). Maybe something a bit simpler, but something that is
designed for growth.
-Nathan
Twyst wrote:
>
> I think you both have misunderstood the concept that I was trying to
> present.
>
> Java has nothing to do with this. I am talking about a plugin that will read
> a text file and according to what it has in it, it draws a dialog.
>
> ***NOTE***
>
> this is meant to allow non-programmers to write their own plugins, using a
> specified format.
> *** Java is NOT good for this.. ... ..
>
> the format doesn't matter - but the idea is that John Q. Public can create a
> text file that has his custom "plugin" and then send it to his buddy who
> also has the plugin.
>
> Here's an example mIRC script that will create a dialog -- this is sort of
> what I'm thinking of.:
>
> Dialog AllDialog {
>
> Title "Example Dialog Window"
> Size -1 -1 300 200
>
> Button "Ok", 1, 5 175 55 20, ok
> Button "Cancel", 2, 65 175 55 20, cancel
>
> Box "Box 1", 3, 5 5 140 70
> Box "Box 2", 4, 5 80 140 85
> Box "Box 3", 5, 155 130 140 60
>
> Radio "Item 1 - Dotted Radio", 6, 10 20 130 15, group
> Radio "Item 2 - Dotted Radio", 7, 10 35 130 15,
> Radio "Item 3 - Dotted Radio", 8, 10 50 130 15,
>
> Radio "Item 1", 9, 10 140 60 18, group push
> Radio "Item 2", 10, 75 140 60 18, push
>
> Check "Item 1 - Checkbox", 11, 165 147 120 15
> Check "Item 2 - Checkbox", 12, 165 167 120 15
>
> Edit "", 13, 10 95 125 22, autohs
>
> List 14, 155 50 140 80, sort
>
> Combo 15, 155 10 140 150, drop
>
> Text "Edit box", 16, 10 120 125 20
>
> Text "Drop Down Combo Box", 17, 155 32 140 20
>
> Text "List box", 18, 155 112 140 20
> }
>
> for example, in the first row containing "Button", it breaks down like so:
>
> Object_type "Name" ,ID, X Y Width Height, value
>
> this is relatively simple, and easily coded without the need for java or
> javascript. (i mean the script, not the plugin.)
>
> Of course, there will need to be methods for getting values, output, and for
> resetting to defaults.
>
> List of features that would be nice:
>
> - ability to spawn child dialogs
> - sliders/spinners
> - Loading scripts
>
> I'd try -- but I don't know C/C++, and I don't think that Visual Basic would
> work for this...
>
> Twyst
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> Johannes Hubert wrote in message <36ecc5e6.0@news.povray.org>...
> >Ph Gibone wrote in message <36ecbcc9.0@news.povray.org>...
> >>
> >>>
> >>>Uhm.
> >>>
> >>>Java sucks. End of story. Apart from the fact that Moray doesn't use or
> >>>support it.
> >>>--
> >>
> >>
> >>Java Exists. End of story
> >>
> >>Moray doesn't use or support any scripting language so far
> >>
> >
> >
> >That's the reason for my previous "Huh?": Java is not a scripting language,
> >so I don't really see a good reason to use it here.
> >Maybe you mean JavaScript??? (Wouldn't be very useful either, since it is
> >mostly web-oriented)
> >
> >Johannes.
> >
> >
> >
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