[scribus-dev] Scripter: Your feedback is required

[Chris Barker]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Mark Heieis <mheieis at alois.ca> wrote:

> I'd be delighted to see "scripter2" see daylight. Especially if the
> scribus CLI option was also available (not sure if this happened or was
> just a thought).
>
> I've being toying with porting "scripter2" as a personal project using
> qt5, python3 and c++11 for a bit with some limited success.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1) What is it's current status?
>
> 2) Has there been any work done on it?
>

Sorry for being too lazy to go find the code, but a question:

What tool(s) are being used to develop the Python / C++ bridge? This can
make all the difference as to how easy it is to write a robust Python API.

If you want to be able to script the GUI, then it may make sense to use
PySide, and then use it's tool for developing other C++ / Python bindings:

http://qt-project.org/wiki/PySide_Binding_Generator

Otherwise, I'm a big fan of Cython for calling C/C++ code from Python. It
allows tight integration and complete control and best-possible
performance. And there is X-Dress, for auto-generating Cython code that
calls C/C++. I haven't actually tried that yet, though...

-Chris

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