Ask HN: What is an interesting thing you created that you are still proud of?
However small or insignificant it may be to the outer world, all that matters is that you love it and are proud of it.
Eventually, I could even pipe text between cooperative tasks.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220917140844/http://swag.outpo...
https://github.com/brudgers/VectorScriptTools/tree/master/Kl...
Vectorworks 2008 was scripted in a Pacal variant that required compiling. Creating a script required many "bureaucratic" operations.
More bureaucracy to load the script to test it.
Looking back, I think in all seriousness that punchcards were the point of reference for the programmers who came up with it...that the development tooling was designed to digitalize a punchcard workflow.
Coming from Autocad, I wanted a scripting workflow that looked like its. Put a list of commands in a text file and they would be run through in order.
That's the background...well that and the sub-prime mortgage meltdown bringing about a future with no work -- be careful what you ask for.
The Vectorscript documentation allowed scripting Vectorworks "tables" -- a spreadsheet like data structure.
Vectorscript also had an evil...I mean eval. [1]
Thus, Kludgeomatic.
From within the drawing I could open one those internal "spreadsheets" and create an ordered list of API calls to Vectorworks commands, and run that list with the click of a button.
Since the spreadsheet was a drawing object, it would be saved with the drawing and could be externalized into a library like an other drawing object for use in other projects.
I thought I was on the road to fame and fortune.
I was wrong about that, but it is still really cool.
[1] Later I wrote a script that could execute arbitrary code the users computer. Digitalized punch cards, like I said.