Examples?

[John Perkins]

It seems like there are only about three people who have a clue about tscript outside of NewTek. Looking at the docs, I understand why...

Looking at the skins, you can't get a good idea of how everything works because many functions seem to be hard-coded in C. For example, most of the menus aren't in the skins folder. Try a grep for render or convert in the skins directory. The context menu is hard-coded. How do you learn to operate on selections in a filebin without an example or decent docs?

Can someone who has this stuff down please post an example that goes beyond just opening a messagebox from a context menu?

Once I get it I'll gladly give some back to the community. Hell, if I get it I'll write new documentation myself.

Thanks

[Keith Gandy]

I also get the impression that things are hard-coded. In the Superscript, Edit Suites are called via a load command that accesses a number. Apparently that is part of the code, because I see no other call to that function.

[eon5]

I need to make an external program using VT4...

Is the solution to use Visual Basic + SDK ?

[John Perkins]

Unless you are a super genius at VB, i.e. - able to call DLL's from VB and understand the headers for the whole VT SDK, use C++.

[eon5]

hummm... ok ! ty !

which compiler ¿?

[John Perkins]

The only supported compilers are VC6 and VC.net

Currently, NewTek uses VC.net so I would suggest that if possible.

[eon5]

VC.net ?

any link ?

[John Perkins]

Here's a link to a free Microsoft VC compiler.

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/visualc/default.aspx

I haven't used it, but I hear it works fine.

[eon5]

cool ! :thumbsup:

ty! :D