Re: Python extensions for Sodipodi

On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 00:42, Pat Suwalski wrote:
> John Stracke wrote:
> > So.  What do you guys think? Shall we work on this?
> 
> I'm no Python expert, but I do have some questions. What is your goal 
> with this? Bindings for a tool that could automatically 
> duplicate-recolor-shift thereby creating a drop shadow? That sort of thing?

Yeah, that sort of thing.  My first goal was word wrap; I've got a
project (http://www.georgelies.org) where I'm producing posters in SVG;
it's a common template, with different text, and doing all the word wrap
by hand was getting tedious.

> 
> CorelDRAW has always had the scripting interface where one did not 
> actually need to know the commands of the script engine. That was 
> interesting.

How did that work? Did you issue commands by just using the GUI as
normal?

> I was always more impressed with the Corel ability to "Record". For 
> [...] Is something like that 
> feasible for this?

Mmm, only if the core GUI were instrumented to emit signals whenever the
user did anything.

> I'm also curious how you bind into the source. Is it function by function?

Yes and no.  I do have specify each function or method individually, but
I mostly don't have to write the wrappers by hand; there's a spec file
(src/spodi.defs in the tarball I sent out) that describes the classes
(and top-level functions), and another file (src/spodi.overrides) that
provides functionality that doesn't fit into the spec.  It wasn't too
hard, though I suppose it would've been nicer to have some sort of
autogeneration.

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