Subject: Re: Scripting
From: Tomasz Wegrzanowski (maniek@beer.com)
Date: Mon Jun 26 2000 - 07:14:28 CDT
There's a flamewar^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdiscusion about scripting for Freeciv
on freeciv-dev@freeciv.org now. Check archives if you are interested.
Anyway, for Word Processor, we need a few completely distinct
things, and one-technology-for-all is not very good idea.
List (arbitrary order, arbitrary gaps) :
1. Writing Macro Viruses ;-)
2. Generating .abi Files
3. Changing .abi Files
4. Printing / Format-Converting from CLI
5. Basic Interafce Customization
6. Complex Interface Customization
So:
Point 1 is unfortunately not portable out of Win9x, althrough
`OpenSource Virus infects 10M computers' would be nice to see in press.
Point 2 can be easily done by external app, one nice thing would be
to have File/NewFileFromExternal where we open window with two
entry-text fields, one it program name, second is argument list.
90% of this is done. And then we make a pipe and get new file.
Point 3 could be done by some xmlutils if such thing existed.
Anyway, I think there is no need for complex Abi<->xmlutils
interface. Simple File/PipeThrough would be 90% enough.
For Point 4 one need to know Abi internals, but it seems quite simple.
Point 5 can be done by record/play, shortcuts customization, and
<problem>stream of events from socket or pipe</problem>
Pount 6 isn't really needed. Abi doesn't need to emulate Vi nor
RP-Calculator nor Hanoi.
How far from true am I ?
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