Visual Scripting

[Matten]

*bump*

For you it's hard, but for some other people it isn't. That's why it could be enabled.
I also support this idea, but what about medium Thyme users? I can spawn and use If's and Loops, but things like this are far too hard for me. So for some things I would use text script, and for some things I would use visual script. So I think it's better to make it in a different menu (just like appearance, material, etc. and that it comes beneath the normal script menu).

[Chronos]

Scripting in Algodoo is so hard and abstract.

Are you on crack? It's one of the most simple coding languages around. I suggest you stop being lazy and read the tutorials on it, because it shouldn't take more than one day to get the basics

[Mystery]

Scripting in Algodoo is so hard and abstract.

Are you on crack? It's one of the most simple coding languages around.

Even still it can be quite hard. Remember not everyone that uses Algodoo has any scripting experience and that a huge chuck of the community is quite young.

[Matten]

Indeed.
I had scripting experience from Visual Basic, some Javascript and I know the very basics of PHP. So for me it was easy to get the basics from Thyme. And that's alot for my age, I'm 12.

[Rideg]

Impressive! This the only program I've ever used. I'm 15 soon...

[Dakta]

Indeed.
I had scripting experience from Visual Basic, some Javascript and I know the very basics of PHP. So for me it was easy to get the basics from Thyme. And that's alot for my age, I'm 12.

Explains much, this post does.


VB is a BAD place to start, programming wise as far as I am concerned. JavaScript still sucks, but not quite as bad (except where the web is concerned, because JS for client-side scripting is probably one of the worst disasters in the entire internet), and PHP is pretty darn amazing for what it is intended (I am very experienced with PHP, and can say that it has an amazingly powerful library and a surprising number of super high level constructions that make programming with it a breeze).

Although, Thyme isn’t too bad for an interpreted language created to facilitate engine draw calls to draw shapes from storage into a 2d physics simulation program.

But to become truly easy to learn, the syntax needs to be refined to more closely resemble PHP/JS/Python (by which I mean actually having real if statements, constructing functions with “function name(params){}”, and advanced structures like while/for(each) etc.). Moving to standardized syntax would be greatly helpful not only for code skimming, but also for beginner learning.