I know, but at the moment I can't get rid of it. Unfortunately, I do not have enough money for a licensed version of TMS Scripter. I'm trying to raise funds to purchase through user donations.
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Ah I see. Thought perhaps it could have been something that only shows up on non-dev sytems, like when the user doesn't have the right MS redistributable installed or similar.
I've never really done anything with scripting in Apophysis. Could this paid solution perhaps be replaced with Python or LUA integration? Just a thought, I have no idea how that stuff works.
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The programming language used in the scripts doesn't really matter, since variable names and operators are just wrappers around native Delphi methods. All you need is a virtual machine that interprets the text written by the user into a sequence of executable commands. The "TMS Scripter Studio" supports many different languages (including C++ and Visual Basic) and has a few additional components that you can do without, that's why it's so expensive. As far as I know, the "Pascal Script" engine is a good free alternative, although it's not so powerful and not fully compatible with the latest Delphi versions. In any case, the replacement will take a lot of time (because for this I have to analyze about half a million lines of code).
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I know, but at the moment I can't get rid of it. Unfortunately, I do not have enough money for a licensed version of TMS Scripter. I'm trying to raise funds to purchase through user donations.
Ah I see. Thought perhaps it could have been something that only shows up on non-dev sytems, like when the user doesn't have the right MS redistributable installed or similar.
I've never really done anything with scripting in Apophysis. Could this paid solution perhaps be replaced with Python or LUA integration? Just a thought, I have no idea how that stuff works.
The programming language used in the scripts doesn't really matter, since variable names and operators are just wrappers around native Delphi methods. All you need is a virtual machine that interprets the text written by the user into a sequence of executable commands. The "TMS Scripter Studio" supports many different languages (including C++ and Visual Basic) and has a few additional components that you can do without, that's why it's so expensive. As far as I know, the "Pascal Script" engine is a good free alternative, although it's not so powerful and not fully compatible with the latest Delphi versions. In any case, the replacement will take a lot of time (because for this I have to analyze about half a million lines of code).