After one of those "Eureka!" moments, following several days of intense hair-pulling, I finally decided to abandon my attempts at trying to use MoI's Internet Explorer component support to script MoI. There were just too many roadblocks, including silent script failures, poor documentation (by Microsoft), etc. Instead, I've decided to try a different approach based on scripting MoI using a simple external interface.
The potential advantages of this approach are that you can easily do any or all of the following:
- Script MoI using your favorite text editor.
- Create user interfaces to MoI using your favorite programming tools or IDE.
- Debug your code using tools you are already familiar with.
Now obviously this is going to be of interest only to programmers or people familiar with some kind of scripting, so for the majority of MoI users, there's probably nothing of immediate interest here.
But my early "proof of concept" results were so encouraging that I decided to create a short screencast showing a few quick examples of using an off the shelf text editor to script MoI on the fly. Here's the link: ((removed dead/hijacked link))
- Dave Morrill
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