RE: ?include? in jscript?

["Matt Lind" <mlind(at)carbinestudios.com>]

With a little preplanning, this is not really an issue.  There won't be namespace issues in JScript if you only put objects in an 'include' file.  The namespace of the object will protect the object's methods and properties from becoming mangled.  If you have other functions that are called frequently, package them into an XSI command so you can call it whenever you want and not worry about 'include' files.

 

Worst case scenario, you can put a small prefix in front of all variable names found in the 'include' file to avoid the namespace issue too.  eg: 'lib_name' and 'lib_type' istead of just 'name' and 'type'.

 

Variable names don't have to be long to accomplish that feat.

 

 

Matt

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Bradley Gabe
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 1:35 PM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: ?include? in jscript?

It's all about name scope.

 

Let's say in the body of your jscript you name a variable or function "foo", and then there is also a variable or function named "foo" in the file you include. Since jscript is copy/paste of text, your two foos are going to conflict and cause errors. Jscript can't tell the difference between your local foo and imported foo.

 

In Python, when you import a file, all it's variables and functions are imported in the namespace of that file (very much like Model Space in XSI!). So if your file is named "myLib" then it's foo variable or function will be "myLib.foo".

 

So for Jscript, if you intend to do any including, you *must* name all your variables and functions something likely to be unique. It forces annoyingly long variable and function names.

 

 

On Feb 3, 2008 3:11 PM, Stephen Blair <Stephen_Blair(at)softimage.com> wrote:

Yeah, like this you mean?

 

<script type="text/_javascript_" src=""></script>

 

How is the Python way object-oriented?

 

The html way is pretty much just like #include in C++ or C.

 

 

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Bradley Gabe
Sent: Sun 03 February 2008 3:52 PM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: ?include? in jscript?

There *is* include in jscript if you are writing for netview.

However, it must be considered as literally cut and paste of text, it's not an object oriented include the way it would be in Python.

On Feb 3, 2008 7:42 AM, Stephen Blair <Stephen_Blair(at)softimage.com> wrote:

Hi Franky

There is no such feature in Jscript.

Some people use eval. See "The Include() Function" section here:
http://digivation.net/programming/registrytools

Another approach (used by the SDK Wizards) is to have a custom object
that provides features used by all the different wizards.

So each wizard calls a command to create an instance of the helper
object, and then calls methods on the helper object.




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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
Of Frank Lenhard
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 8:36 AM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: ?include? in jscript?

Hi scripters,

i dont know if something like i whish for exists in jscript. so far i
didnt found any info.

what i basically want is writing functions in ONE script and include
that script with one nifty line like "include c:\1.jscript" into the
current script and have all the functions declared in 1 available in
script 2.

would keep the scripting much eaasier to read and navigate, then to
mess with thousands of lines of code.


ciao
franky

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