Scripting with Scheme and Python

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Hello ivla

You mean it can be packed like other plugins in .tar file?
Show an example, please.

Yep that's exactly it, the script can be packaged in a tar file and
will be installable the same way as plugins.

The script and .wscr file won't need any changes to turn it into
a plugin script, and the extra .conf file provides the menu location.
For the .tar file, there might be a fourth file that is like a "manifest"
so wings knows which plugin to ask about installing the .tar file.

An example package might have:

Code:

manifest
special_shape_bumpy.conf
special_shape_bumpy/special_shape_bumpy.wscr
special_shape_bumpy/special_shape_bumpy.py

the file special_shape_bumpy.conf might look like:

Code:

{"unique-script-name.author-name.special-shape-bumpy.1", [
    {wscr, "special_shape_bumpy/special_shape_bumpy.wscr"},
    {menu, [
        {[shape, special_shapes, special_shape_bumpy], []}
    ]}
]}.

{strings, [
    {plugin, "unique-script-name.author-name.special-shape-bumpy.1"},
    {"en", [
        {{plugin,name}, "Bumpy Shape"},
        {{menu,special_shapes}, "Special Shapes"},
        {{menu,special_shape_bumpy}, "Bumpy Shape"}
    ]}
]}.

Some explanations:

Code:

{wscr, "special_shape_bumpy/special_shape_bumpy.wscr"},

.wscr is in a subfolder "special_shape_bumpy" relative to the .conf file.

Code:

    {menu, [
        {[shape, special_shapes, special_shape_bumpy], []}
    ]}

It will be added to a menu "Bumpy Shape" inside a custom sub menu
called "Special Shapes", inside the new shape menu.

Code:

{strings, [
    {plugin, "unique-script-name.author-name.special-shape-bumpy.1"},
    {"en", [
        {{plugin,name}, "Bumpy Shape"},
        {{menu,special_shapes}, "Special Shapes"},
        {{menu,special_shape_bumpy}, "Bumpy Shape"}
    ]}
]}.

For each language a set of strings can be made. The unique
string "unique-script-name.author-name.special-shape-bumpy.1"
needs to match though.