GWeb opened this issue on Jan 02, 2005 ยท 6 posts
GWeb posted Sun, 02 January 2005 at 3:57 PM
I think I need to post with a very simple question. How do you change the dials in Poser from Visual Basic?
an0malaus posted Mon, 03 January 2005 at 5:34 AM
Sorry I can't answer your question directly, but can you clarify why it needs to be visual basic specifically or is that just a programming environment you are familiar with? As far as external control of Poser goes, The Python scripting language, which has similar capabilities in most respects to visual basic has defined interfaces to control Poser. I do not know for sure, but it may be possible that Visual Basic could interface to Poser via Python script calls. Hopefully someone else with specific VB/Python integration experience can provide you a more detailed possible/impossible answer. Happy New Year to you!
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GWeb posted Mon, 03 January 2005 at 5:20 PM
Yes just programming environment I am familiar with. Actually VB is easiest and fastest programming appliance. I made several programs with VB than any other languages. VB works very well with DirectX and OpenGL. The question is, how can I make a script for Poser to link with the variables from DLL based VB environment for the dial controls and polygons? Are there examples for it? Thanks
underdog posted Mon, 03 January 2005 at 11:55 PM
Attached Link: http://www.ockhamsbungalow.com/Python
GWeb.. Since no one is responding and I suspect that the vacation theory may be true, let me just say that I haven't heard of anyone automating Poser using Visual Basic. It would be cool to have such an interface, but I don't know that it has been done. If you wanted to learn a bit about Python, you might be able to CREATE such a tool by opening a socket in Poser Python and to accept connections and listen for commands and open up a socket in VB to talk to the Python script. Then (and I know this is too much work) you could come up with a set of tokens to send from VB to Poser Python to support the existing API. Have you looked at the PDF documentation for scripting in Poser Python? Also, Ockham has some terrific examples on his site.
ockham posted Tue, 04 January 2005 at 11:56 AM
Hogwarden is working on something similar, using Delphi I think... Look in hogsoft.com, find the forums.
an0malaus posted Wed, 05 January 2005 at 3:08 AM
Is there any possibility that the socket to socket connection solution could work between a Tkinter supporting MachO version of Python on the Mac and the Tkinter-less P5 bundled CFM Python?????
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