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Coding a User-Editable Pseudo Language (Script Builder)

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Subject: Coding a User-Editable Pseudo Language (Script Builder)
From: Steve Weintraut <sweintraut at endlesspools dot com>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:43:41 -0400
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I'm writing a product configuration system. I have a list rules to code, as if part A is added, then parts B and C need to be added as well. etc, etc.

The rules change quite a bit as the products are refined, so I thought it would be really cool if I could give the product managers a little mini-language where they could build their own if-statements and other simple rules without having to come back to me to recode everything. I would write an interface that would be sort of a "script-builder" for them, and it would check for correct syntax before saving

I've started sketching out how I'm going to do it myself but it sure is a big task. I'd hate to be reinventing the wheel.

Sure, RBScript seems like an easy answer, but that's too techy for the intended audience.

FileMaker's "Script Builder" is a good example of what I'm trying to do

Our system is partly in PHP and partly in RealBasic, so I can write it either way

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Steve Weintraut
Director of MIS Operations
Endless Pools
http://www.endlesspools.com/main.html
"Swim without Limits"
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