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Scriptographize It.

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:47:45 +0200

MP. Foundry is a humble upstart design firm which promotes power by numbers. We are in the construction phase of our first project which was made possible in part by Gorgeous George LLC., Scriptographer, and the wonderful team at 4pli / Associated Fabrication;

You can view our work currently at

http://picasaweb.google.com/graffitiempire

our love and props...

mp.f

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Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:37:05 +0200

Beta Release 2006_04_30

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 18:12:47 +0200

I uploaded new beta versions today.

These mainly fix two things: The crash on some machines in the previous release, and an incompatibility with Apple's Java 1.5 Release 4 and CS1.

Any feedback is welcome.

Scriptographer_Mac_CS1_2006_04_30.zip
Scriptographer_Mac_CS2_2006_04_30.zip

Windows versions will follow.

Progress Report / Good News

Wed, 31 May 2006 12:31:36 +0200

Exciting things are happening in the tech department, at least exciting for the geeks:

At the moment I'm working more or less 100% on both the plugin and the website.
The website is nearly there, and the plugins currently undergoes huge changes:

I ported the code to XCode from CodeWarrior to be able to use GCC and GCJ (Gnu Compiler for Java) instead of the Java Virtual Machine. The advantage of this is that both the plugin and the JavaScript engine are compiled to native code, which starts up and runs faster and uses less memory. But it still behaves just like it did when running in the virtual machine, even Rhino's java bridge is still there. Also, through the use of CNI (Compiled Native Interface) instead of JNI, interfacing with the Adobe SDK will be much easier in future add ons (maybe I even port the old classes to CNI).
The only problem is that AWT does not work, so Graphics2D, platform Fonts (through Java), BufferedImages, etc are not supported anymore.

But that's where the second good news come in: Instead of AWT, I was trying out SWT today (IBM's windowing framework that Eclipse is based on), which is open source and compiles just fine with GCJ. I wanted to see if that interferes with Illustartor's event loop and UI. And I couldn't believe my eyes to see that it worked! Before, AWT was deadlocking and therefore the virtual machine had to be started in headless mode.

So now Scriptographer can use SWT, and through SwingWT AWT, so even Rhino's graphical debugger which is based on AWT will finally work. And I'm sure that there are some nice source code coloring editors based on SWT out there that could be integrated as well, to finally get to something that looks like a proper IDE.

And the third good news is that there is a similar project out there, whose author Geoff strom is already working on an IDE and a debugger that probably could be integrated in Scriptographer too:
http://bantengproject.org/

So this is all very exciting, but before I really start with all this, I should focus on releasing the current version that depends on the Java Virtual Machine properly. Once that's done, work on the above will continue.

Beta Release 2006_03_21

Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:45:49 +0200

I uploaded a new beta release today.

The following things where changed:

- Changes in the startup sequence that hopefully fix problems on some Illustartor setups on Mac.

- Scriptographer writes infomration into a log file inside the Scriptographer folder (scriptographer.log). In case of problems, this file should be sent to sg@scriptographer.com for debugging. No personal data will be logged to that file.

- The tools now correctly change the mouse cursor.

- An issue with Dialog.prompt() was fixed that would leave the document unable to recieve any mouse events after the dialog was displayed.

- The script folder was cleaned up, and some more of the old scripts were ported to the new syntax. The raster scripts should now all work.

If you encountered problems with the previous release, or if you missed some of the scripts, please try again with this one now.

Scriptographer_Mac_CS1_2006_03_21.zip
Scriptographer_Mac_CS2_2006_03_21.zip

For installation, please refer to Simon's usefull explanation:

http://www.scriptographer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66

PC versions will follow soon...

First Public Beta Release

Fri, 07 Apr 2006 02:07:58 +0200

Finally!

I've just finished all the bits I wanted to get into the first public beta release. You can download the plugin for Mac and Windows here now:

Scriptographer_Mac_CS1_2006_02_28.zip
Scriptographer_Mac_CS2_2006_02_28.zip
Scriptographer_Win_CS1_2006_02_28.zip
Scriptographer_Win_CS2_2006_02_28.zip

Please note that this is still very rough around the edges. The package contains API documentation, but this is more of a scafold for the text to be filled in at a later point. Many of the function names should be self-explanatory though...

The API can also be viewed online:

http://www.scriptographer.com/api/2.0/

The beta version also comes with most of the old scripts, converted into the new format. This might be a good starting point.

Expect more to come over the next few weeks, including an all new website, tutorials, better documentation, more features, etc.

Right now, the plug-in does not specify the amount of memory the virtual machine should allocate, and there is no way of telling it to so. I will a configuration file with that possibility soon.

Please don't hesitate to post problems with the beta on this forum.

I hope this is a big step towards the final goal, and allows all of you on CS2 finally start playing around with Scriptographer again.

Hurray!

updates?

dux — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:28:46 +0100

any news lehni?

Call For Submission Of Works

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:45:55 +0100

Scriptographer will be featured in the exhebition "Generator.x" ( http://www.generatorx.no ) on one big poster, and I'm thinking of doing a layout showing the interface and some nice examples of use, so if you want to take the chance and maybe end up in the exhebition please submit your favourite examples of things you did with Scriptographer until the end of this week. Of course full credits will be given!

The show is open 23 September - 16 October in the National Museum in Oslo.

It would be great to have the new version + site online until then too.

Now that's a deadline!

Submission go to: sg@scriptographer.com

A lot of progress

Mon, 07 Nov 2005 16:15:13 +0100

I've been pretty quiet on the forum lately. But this doesn't mean that things are not moving.

I spent the last month more or less only on Scriptographer.

So far, a lot of things on the To Do list are done:

- CS1 / CS2 compilation with Java Virtual Machine integration on both Mac and Windows
- Text engine: This was a hard one and took almost two weeks. But now all things text are scriptable.
- Website: Together with Urs Lehni we came up with a new Logo and site design. This is the next step, and I won't reveal anything before it goes online.

Still not Done:
- Documentation
- Website implementation
- Scripting of Swatches, Graphical Styles, Symbols, Tracing (CS2), Filters and Effects from other Plugins, etc.

But a Beta release is just around the corner.