Re: [Audacity-devel] Scripting?

[Dominic M. <do...@au...>]

On Dec 8, 2004, at 12:59 PM, Asger Ottar Alstrup wrote:
> The fundamental problem is that you have to be a C level programmer in 
> order to use IPC. Yes, you can write it in Python, but only C level 
> programmers knows how to do this. In other words, the average script 
> kid can not use this facility to make a quick macro to tune the volume 
> and clip this and that.

I disagree; languages like Perl, Python, Java, etc. have standard, 
cross-platform, high-level library functions to send data over 
sockets...and intro books on many of these languages even talk about 
how to do it.

> I suggest that you just decide that Lua is the answer to your prayers. 
> It is designed for exactly this task.

If we have trouble with IPC, then I will be more inclined to look at 
this kind of possibility.  But given a choice between advertising 
"script Audacity using Lua (a language you've never heard of!)" or 
"script Audacity using whatever language you want (here's some sample 
code in 8 of the most popular languages we could think of)", I'd prefer 
the latter.

> Add a macro recording facility, and you have solved many problems and 
> opened it up for use by non-programmers.

Macro recording is a great idea and would work independently of what 
language we decide to use.

> Regards,
> Asger Ottar Alstrup
>
> P.S. If you still like to go the IPC road, then at least steal the 
> code from LyX (it's GPL). Search for lyxserver and you will find a 
> nice, general cross-platform class that encapsulates all the details 
> for you.

Great, I'll take a look.  Thanks.

- Dominic


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