Re: [isugamedev-devel] scripting

[Kevin M. <ke...@vr...>]

any time estimates for how long it would take me to get productive with
these?


thanks,

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On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Chad Austin wrote:

> Interfacing Python with C:     http://python.org/doc/current/ext/ext.html
> Interfacing JavaScript with C: http://mozilla.org/js/spidermonkey/
> 
> It's really easy to use SpiderMonkey's API.  Python's a little weirder, but not entirely bad.
> 
> (Look in my audio library at http://sf.net/projects/audiere.  I have bindings for XPCOM, Python, and
> Java.  I'd also suggest looking at the way Sphere interfaces with SpiderMonkey, but it's ASS NASTY
> and you'd never want to do it like that.  EVER.)
> 
> It's really not hard to set up bindings for a specific language.  However, I strongly recommend
> going with XPCOM.  Via IDL and type libraries, it automates the cross-language communication
> process.
> 
> XPCOM links:
> http://mozilla.org/projects/xpcom/
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/components/library/co-xpcom.html
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/components/library/co-xpcom2.html
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/components/library/co-xpcom3.html
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/components/library/co-xpcom4/index.html
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/components/library/co-xpcom5.html
> 
> > I think chad knows this one, but if anyone else has ideas, i'd be
> > interested.
> > 
> > want to do a scripting interface to the tank game engine (in cvs)...
> > 
> > how easy is it to do a perl or python binding?  I'd like cross platform
> > (linux win32 irix mac).  I envision that most objects would be prefab in
> > the game engine code (like particle systems that i can just setup in high
> > level fashion, or objects that i can drop in and they just collide.)...
> > so not much low level logic in the scripting, hopefully just game logic
> > (like click button triggers open of door, where the button and door are
> > both defined in c++ code and have a simple trigger mechanism that can be
> > hooked up in python...)
> > 
> > anyway, pretty random thoughts.  mainly wondering how fast I could have
> > this implemented (assuming i had the game engine written... :)
> > 
> > and, what are the steps I should take?  (pointers to documentation on how
> > to do this are fine too)
> 
> -- 
> Chad Austin
> http://aegisknight.org/
> 
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