jldaureil 35 Posted March 26 Hello everyoneThis section of the forums seems very quiet ...I am a little lost.I had looked a little bit at the version 6 SDK.At the time I had the idea to see if I could contribute.For lack of basic basic training and also for lack of time I had to give up.I feel that a lot has changed(python?)Would there be someone Chris? or Z support that can make a very short history of SDK form Z?Would it be possible to give me some pointers about the future? (in the perspective of contributing even if I am trained for this)I have the impression that the project "LAB" is stoppedDo you know who made this contribution that seemed very dynamic and why it seems extinct? 1 Chris lund reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tech 713 Posted March 26 The SDK has been available since v6 as both a C(/C++) interface and an FSL (form•Z script language) interface. With v9 we are introducing Python support. This simplifies and standardizes the scriptable interface for form•Z making extending form•Z easier and opening an channel to a wealth of existing python libraries that offer a variety of functionality. The C interface will still be supported in v9, but we expect the to be used primarily for existing plugins or development that needs to access external C libraries. FSL will be discontinues. We expect that the Python interface will bring new interest in extensions and to the LAB project which has not been updated in a while. We expect to start beta testing towards the end of next month so stay tuned! 3 Des, Chris lund and Jaakko reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chris lund 195 Posted March 28 My current professional situation has taken me away from modeling. Though, I do a lot more programming. In Python😊 Not professionally, but rather for internal projects. Even though not using fZ professionally, I do use it for personal and internal business projects. I will first update my scripts from FSL to python. For the Mix of reasons of adoring fZ , the Community that supports it, and my continuing interest in programming, there are a number of scripts I have planned beyond my historicals and hope to continue with scripts as of yet unimagined. I would even someday like to be a contributor to the LAB project. But even so, this would take some time to build the quality of my scripts as I don't pretend to be an expert. jldaureil, I realize that the above doesn't answer your question, as Tech did that already. I would like to add, that some of the Utility Scripts currently work with version 8. MIMI for example does (mostly.) As Tech mentioned, when 9 is released that will break all FSL scripts. If you or anyone else has a request of which scripts you want me to update to Python first, please let me know. I would be happy and quite frankly excited to get on this project. Updating my current scripts will be a good warm up exercise. Though, due to my lack of professional use these days I don't know if I will be a candidate for Beta testing any longer. I do hope I will be, Hope isn't much of a strategy. If I get the opportunity to test, I would be doing more testing in the scripting area than in the actual modeling environment, though naturally I will be doing some of that as well. Tech, This is exciting news! I want to beta test the scripting environment. Do hope I haven't been too much of a PIA and will be allowed to test. Don't know the emoji that describes my current expression. <<Sweating Trepidation>> ¢hris £und 2 Des and Jaakko reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jldaureil 35 Posted April 2 hi Chris Thanks you for your input... great news Have you the complete list of all you scripts ? I have to check all scripts I actually use... Thanks in advance Chris Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
