OpenEuphoria

Re: scripting: what is it? etc.

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gmail.com> Feb 15, 2007
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Dan Moyer wrote:
> 
> What is "scripting"?
> What's it used for?
> How do you do it?
> Where do you do it?
> 
> And are there other questions about it that I have not asked
> that I should have?  :)

As others have shown, there are several things generally referred to as
scripting.  Aside from shell scripting (glue code, batch files, etc--not
terribly interesting IMHO), I tend to think about scripting as using an
embedded programming language to allow the user more control over an
application.

A good example is wxEDB, which embeds ooeu (at least, the version in svn
does--I think the officially released version still uses Dave C's old
euscript-based code) to allow the user to create forms, similar to what
you could do with MS Access, or a simple VB app, except that you get to
use 100% euphoria.

Matt