tcl might not work for a lot of needs, but how difficult would it be to have a tcl scripting external? Allows some quite complex operations, fast array searches and of course easy GUI creation. I currently have a tcl script that writes an array of 100+ gem objects, it would be neat to have this script exist inside a "script" object.
whats the advantage of python of tcl? since the interpreter is already there...
Ben
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, mark wrote:
Hi,
I gave some serious thought to the scripting thing last night. I am thinking of building a "python" external that would allow simple scripts - you would make make an object:
py scriptname
which would take a python class that is similar in structure to the external "class" structure used by externals currently - obviously a bit more simple. No DSP of course (can't imagine it would be vaguely fast enough). Python is a good fit with PD I belive - it does good list type manipulation (in fact it will be easy to write a set of list manipulation externals which I have been wanting for a while now) and its got some quite nifty features. Oh and I want to learn it which strikes me as a good a reason as any ;-)
So - does anyone have any requests for features or things I should be considering?
cheers
mark