Forum: Hardware / Technical


Subject: Now I REALLY feel sorry for Mac users ... MK Scripts ROCKS!!!

timoteo1 opened this issue on Sep 04, 2001 ยท 88 posts


MartinC posted Wed, 05 September 2001 at 3:41 AM

It's always interesting to listen to other people prejudices, you learn a lot about your own ones... :-) While I'm tired to death to enter the zillionth my-computer-is-longer-than-your-one-when-erected debate, I'd just like to add one little note from a Mac developer's perspective - I just can't subscribe to the claim that coding for the Mac is such a pain. As a matter of fact, I'm coding it for years with great pleasure, and I even decided to write all of my tools using direct Mac API calls without the slightest assistance of any sort of framework. I did look at frameworks (both Mac and PC) and I found the straight API clearer, easier (and simply more fun to deal with) than anything else. If you feel better if you bash Macs - just do it, call it any name you like, but please don't keep telling it is too difficult to code as a universal law. This might be true for your own point of view, but not necessarily for everybody else. :-) Moving slightly back towards the topic: I spend the last few days trying to get the MKScripts to work on Mac, and I can assure you that the PC-only sticker has nothing to do with money, platform-phobia, percentages or ignorance. The writer of it is very interested to share them with the Mac community if only it would be possible. The reason why it isn't is simply because Poser ProPack for Mac completely and utterly sucks - virtually nothing works as it should, and even the things that do work initially soon start to get unstable after several runs. To be more precice: Many (very) basic Python features simply don't work at all (by throwing tons of internal error messages) or even let Poser crash. Some Poser Python commands don't accept the same kind of input as the PC version, and some commands are simply ignored by Poser. This reduces the (working) features of MKScripts to hardly anything worth bothering, and therefore it will probably stay PC-only for (at least) some time. Rumour has that there will be a SR3 patch - I'll give it another try if anything should be improved by then. Speaking about the scripts - there is nothing in it which should cause any problems on Mac, granted that Poser starts to do what has been written on the cover of the package - so please don't blame the creator of MKScripts for it, it is not his fault. And don't blame a whole computer platform just because one specific program (version) really sucks - there are many PC programs which don't even start up... To end in a slightly lighter and humorous mood, I'd like to quote an olde saying: - Macs are for those who don't want to know why their computer works - Linux is for those who want to know why their computer works - DOS is for those who want to know why their computer doesn't work - Windows is for those who don't want to know why their computer doesn't work