Oh ya, thinking about this a bit more:

All the math can be done by pov-ray itself -- so you don't need any
calcualtion functions (Unless you want to do a wireframe representation --
this could be done as well, I think.. . add drawing commands, maybe -- the
plugin defines the points in an array, or a loop, or something..  and passes
the list to the drawing method  )

also, the only thing necessary for povray output, is a method of getting the
values from the dialog, and a print command (that gets called when the
plugin is polled for output)-- after all; povray is happy with text.

Hmm...

Wireframe output prob. isn't possible.. but that's not a big deal, imho.

I can see this bringing out a whole bunch of math or repetitive "scripts"...



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Twyst wrote in message <36e9b59d.0@news.povray.org>...
>How about a "scripting language" plugin? It would make it really easy to
add
>new ideas...
>
>For example, you could have a text file like so:
>
>
>Dialog
>
>  name "MyDialog"
>  sidebar //puts it in the side menu; could be window instead to make it
>popup
>  //if it's window, have pos X,Y, Size X,Y
>
>checkbox
>
> pos 10,10
> name "C1"
> value 0
>}
>
>label {
>  pos 10,20
> value "This is C1"
>}
>
>editbox
>
> pos 10,30
> size 10
> name "RepeatVal"
> value "100"
> }
>}
>
>output {
> print "#declare Max=" . $MyDialog(RepeatVal) . ";"
> ....
> ....
>}
>
>
>It's very rudimentary -- but I'm thinking of something along the lines of
>the scripting language found uin the mIRC chat program for windows.
>(http://www.mirc.co.uk )
>
>Anyone game for this?
>
>
>Twyst
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