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EricZimmerman
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Has anyone ever developed one of these or even seen one in use somewhere? I've seen the examples on the web site but was curious if many one has done any development against it.

 
Posted : 31/03/2013 12:30 am
Chris_Ed
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I've had a quick look but nothing serious (yet). To be honest I find it somewhat intimidating - I am a journeyman coder at best, and although I enjoy writing work-related scripts in Python (and can, when forced, write some simple EnScripts) the format of the API seems.. obtuse. But that is the story of XWF I guess )

Current barriers
- There is no native Python interpreter in XWF, so I will have to include and distribute miniPython with anything I write.
- Have to write my own GUI! Which is OK, it's just that something I like about EnScript is that it can handle that sort of thing for you. And between us, tkinter is not my favourite thing.
- Have to include "XT_Init", "XT_Done", etc - messy! (

It would be nice to have a proper Python module I could install, but I recognise that XWF are trying to keep it as language-independent as possible. I may take a few days to go through it, soon, and I'm sure once I'm into the swing of things I will be all "oh actually this is really easy!". But for now..

 
Posted : 02/04/2013 12:45 pm
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