Scripting Languages ?
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Hi, Guys;
Just wanted to know what scripting language people are using for their projects ?
Are you using an off-the-shelf tool (such as LUA), or are you rolling your own ?
Thanks,
Odin
So far I''ve seen talk of LUA, Java, java-script and Python. And there are two recent articles on rolling your own that garnered some attention as well.
Author
I''ve used LUA (3.2) before, both for configuration and some simple runtime evaluations.
The main issue I had with it was the lack of execute-sleep-and -continue functionality (allowing me to run multiple non-threaded and non-blocking LUA scripts, or allowing me to pause a LUA script while waiting for some condition, such as arriving at the end of a path). Reading through the updated news pages on it, 4.1 Work 3 adds a Yield function, but it''s not yet totally stable...
So I''m checking around for alternatives =)
Odin
The main issue I had with it was the lack of execute-sleep-and -continue functionality (allowing me to run multiple non-threaded and non-blocking LUA scripts, or allowing me to pause a LUA script while waiting for some condition, such as arriving at the end of a path). Reading through the updated news pages on it, 4.1 Work 3 adds a Yield function, but it''s not yet totally stable...
So I''m checking around for alternatives =)
Odin
In that case, you might find this thread interesting
Java as a scripting language: using the JNI
Since this thread, I''ve seen Ziphnor praise java-script a number of times. Shaft was supposed to alert me regarding his java based system, but hasn''t yet.
Java as a scripting language: using the JNI
Since this thread, I''ve seen Ziphnor praise java-script a number of times. Shaft was supposed to alert me regarding his java based system, but hasn''t yet.
Author
Interesting thread.
So in your own case.. do you use an existing scripting engine (JS ? Java?), or have you made your own.
Also, has anyone had a look at Pike ? It''s got some interesting semantics, and it''s nice and OOP, but the GPL is a turn-off..
Odin
So in your own case.. do you use an existing scripting engine (JS ? Java?), or have you made your own.
Also, has anyone had a look at Pike ? It''s got some interesting semantics, and it''s nice and OOP, but the GPL is a turn-off..
Odin
I''m curently looking at Ruby to see how easy it is to embed - some success so far but its not quite there yet.
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I've seen Ziphnor praise java-script a number of times.
Hehe, i guess i have been, havent i
Anyway, what i like about it, is simply that its so damn uncomplicated to use.
I should point out though that im not passing objects from C++ -> JS or the other way. I send handles(int's) to the java-script which the script can use for calling functions on the native side. (so the script might call makeWindow(blabla) and this method returns a integer handle that can be used to call native functions on the window.
Also, the methods you want to expose to the java-scripts cant be member functions(afaik).
But if these things doesnt frighten you off, i think its a good place to start when looking for a script language. Java itself is properly better and is more powerful(classes can come in handy as templates for different types of scripts) but its also more complicated to use.
[edited by - ziphnor on March 19, 2002 8:00:02 AM]
I''m using TCL for scripting. So far, I have no complaints about it, although I might try rolling my own language as a learning experience.
quote:Original post by __ODIN__
So in your own case.. do you use an existing scripting engine (JS ? Java?), or have you made your own.
In my case, I haven't implemented a scripting engine of any kind. However, when I get to that point, I will use java-script first because I already know how to use java-script.
This brings out another issue, how well known the scripting language is and whether that is a factor in your game at all. Javscript is well known (notice the hyphen that the forum board places in the word and that it's also lower case - that's a caution against unscrupulous posts - I didn't add the hyphen, and I capitalized the word at the start of this sentence too). Anyway...
// but the forum board doesn't check for mispellings
Javscript
java-script - this was J***script
java script
[edited by - lessbread on March 19, 2002 2:30:58 PM]
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