[Visgame-develop] MS Script control vs. our own Script Control.

[Joe C. K. <com...@gm...>]

MS Script control vs. our own Script Control.

MS = Microsoft
VB = MS Visual Basic 6.0, Programming Language.
C/C++/C# = Programming languages.
VG = VisGame
VGG = VisGame Game

The idea:
I am kicking around the idea of having a VisGame Language done in C++
to be called from VB. This would allow for fast execution of script
code. Maybe even a compiler would be able to be built easier. But, the
Script control would have to take References from the VB program for
the Graphics, Net, Input, Sound, etc. Being able to have a "add
object" method like the MS Script Control would be a must.

In Detail:
The project will have a script language. If we use the MS script
control we can have VBScript, JavaScript, or any other script
languages that the MS script control is aware of. Now to compile the
script into a EXE file would be hard to do. In fact the only idea of
how we could do that is an old MS DOS trick* I learned (long time
ago). The other way is to write our own script language, like a
interpreter.  This might, I stress might, be easier to compiler into a
form that can be packed into the EXE. The only programming languages
that I know of that can do this is ASM and C/C++/C#. I am guessing
that C++ would be the easy rout.

*MS DOS trick:
In short; appending the data to the end of a file. Writing code that
will look at the end of the file and return the data. Using the data
in the means it was meant for.
This method was used in old shareware software among others.  I have
even been told (and read) that this is how some software used resource
files. How we would use this method is having a pre-compiled program
with a resource file that holds the VGG graphics, audio, ect. and the
script being appended to that EXE file would allow you to run the
software. That is, if I remember how to do this right.

In closing:
There is one other idea that comes to mind. Write the VB code in a way
so we can pass the objects into a C++ interpreter and use a C++
compiler to execute the script file.

The questions I have here... is it worth the effort, and which way is the best?
Any other ideas and suggestions would be helpful.

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