SE4 Scripting in Python (templatizer again)

[Ed Kolis]

New Version of the expression evaluator that the Templatizer uses - get it at my website!
What's new: interpolation functions (handy for damage calculations ) and bug fixes!

[Ed Kolis]

Templatizer update: you can now use metric suffixes (such as 1K = 1E3), and a bug fixed which required you to add a newline to the generated files before using them in SE4

[Ruatha]

Is it possible for you to write a graphic UI for the templatizer or the EEE?
For us not so fluent in evaluation thingies!
I've tried to start it but it goes Zoooooooooom way past me!! It's finished before I have even the slightest idea what I'm doing, (It's not that it finishes by itself its just that it would propably take several years for me to understand it).

I've tried both the Templatizer and the EEE and I belive I've got some tiny notion as to what it does but that's about it and I might be way wrong!

[Ed Kolis]

Yeah, I could probably put together a GUI for the programs... the real meat of the app is in the expression parser library anyway, so it shouldn't take long to make a GUI for the templatizer, at least... I personally don't see much point in making a GUI for the calculator part, because that would have to be changed every time I added a function or operator, and it would be *quite* cluttered with all the functions I've added - unless all you want is a text box where you type in equations, but then how's that better than a command line anyway?

Of course, when you say a GUI for the templatizer, do you just mean something where you can select an input text file and select an output text file and hit "generate"? Or do you want to be able to fully configure the various data files in the GUI? I think there's a PropertyList control which might be of some use, if I can figure out how to manipulate it to add and remove abilities, tech reqs, etc. the way I want...

Oh, and BTW, there's another bugfix release out now - was having some more problems with parentheses, those pesky things

[Ruatha]

Hmm, I don't know what I mean, I just thought it'd be easier to see what it does....

[Ed Kolis]

Well, the GUI, whatever that may be, is probably a ways off... I'm still trying to work out the Last of these stupid order-of-operations bugs that ruin any expression with multiple levels of parentheses!

(Though with the wide variety of functions I've provided, there will be little need to use multiple levels of parentheses, no? )

[Ed Kolis]

Well, I got those parentheses bugs fixed (at least I hope... ) - anyone else want to try it out? I've generated a few MOO2 components with the program, but those are pretty trivial compared to what the program can do