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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