different scripting languages?

jcarney42 wrote on 4/18/2003, 7:11 PM
Will there be any possibility to use other scripting languages?
Brian Lloyd over at zope.org has made a .net interface for python.

Here is the link for his python.net preview download
http://www.zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/index_html

It includeds all the necessary python run time libs so you don't have
to install the ActiveState version or download and install all the additional
stuff from python.org

You can install the full python with source if you want to though.

Anyone from SoFo please jump in. Python is much more powerful than jscript or
VB.

Thanks in advance

J. Carney


Comments

aboukirev wrote on 4/18/2003, 8:37 PM
There are couple of no-no things to it:
- it's still in beta - SoFo probably won't integrate it into working supported product
- read the very first paragraph in the FAQ - PythonNet is to access .NET from Python, nothing more

On the side note, at some point I considered Python de-facto standard for 3d applications scripting. My mistake, there is a lot more variety there. But it's a good scripting language nonetheless.

JScript is pretty powerful. Use ready-made .NET libraries and classes, and it's unlikely you'll hit the limitations.

Alexei
jcarney42 wrote on 4/19/2003, 10:36 PM
Alexei, yes, it is in beta, but my point was... it would be nice if Sofo allowed for installing different scripting tools. Python is used by several 3d and 2d compositing systems (Truespace, plus some plug-ins for AE). My background is Delphi and I like using Objectoriented tools. Would be very cool if sofo made Python a built in scripting language. Just dreaming I guess. More importantly, it would be nice if you could access Vegas without having to launch the scripts from within Vegas itself. If they set that up, then you could use any language that recognizes .net interfaces. Maybe in the future. Not a make or break issue, just a nice to have.
jcarney42 wrote on 4/19/2003, 10:43 PM
One other point. If Vegas simply recognized any scripting language that intalled under and supported the Windows Scripting Host and .net, that would be great too.

thanks for your incite.
roger_74 wrote on 4/20/2003, 3:47 AM
I don't think it's up to Sonic Foundry. Vegas uses the VSA engine from Microsoft, and it only supports JScript.NET and VB.NET directly (all other languages indirectly).