I see your not keen to give up your role as the forum's resident grumpy old man any time soon, MKelley.mkelley wrote:Hmmm, forgive me for being a sour puss here (I think that's my job given the gushing of the beta) but my biggest problem with scripting is not any new cool features but simply the ability to access stuff that's there. Not being to script styles, for example. It sounds like what you are saying is that Mike did not enable those sorts of things and if so, that's a very sad thing indeed.
I do understand that many things you might want to script are negated by changes -- that's the whole point of a new release -- but equally there will be many things now that people DO want to script precisely because of those changes. If the basic functionality is still hidden then it's really disappointing to me (that's kind of why I stopped scripting -- too many attributes of things couldn't be reached. I'm used to a tool like Max in which *everything* is exposed, because the API is fully featured).
But have fun with your audio editor (ho-hum, who cares?)
May I ask what you mean by being able to script styles? You can already assign styles to shapes with scripting, but perhaps you mean actually creating new styles. I don't know about you, but the phrase that Vern used, "walking the file", suggests to me that there may be a way to interface with the file format directly, which could make it possible to create styles from a script, as well as just about anything you could imagine. All I ask is that you have a bit of faith until you've actually checked out the new version for yourself.
Hopefully, when Mike comes back online tomorrow, he can tell us a bit more about the changes to the scripting interface himself.
) as I don't have a lot of money right now and having to pay for ASP twice is not my idea of fun...
