Scripting of Xara?

[ktenney]

Howdy,

I've just discovered Xara Xtreme via the announcement
to open the source. This is exciting.

I have not seen any mention of the ability to script drawing
operations in Xara.

Does this feature exist, or is it planned?

Thanks,
Kent

[michaelward]

I am sure scripting is something that could be added at the progmatic leve, and I'm sure that it would be useful.

One area that I think Xara could expand in to is the area of server side graphics - it would be great if there was a Xara engine capable of creting superb graphics on the fly for the web.

[netsi]

Server-side facilities could be very cool and also a thing that would open up for further areas of use. For instance if it would be possibel to create objects and thereby doing drawings using programming languages - or other applications. Scripts could then also be an example of interfacing with the Xtreme world of Xara graphics. Something like this in say javascript (in say ASP pages):
var oXtremeObj = Server.CreateObject('Xara.Xtreme.Canvas');
var oCircle = oXtremeObj.addCircle(100, 100, 200);
var oCircle1 = oCircle.clone();
var oTransparency = Server.CreateObject('Xara.Xtreme.Transparency.Line ar);
oTransparency.addPoint('0px', '0px', '#000000');
oTransparency.addPoint('100%', '100%', 'rgb(100%, 100%, 100%)');
oCircle1.setTransparency(oTransparency);
... and so on... :-)

Let's see if something like this will occur :-)

[foobie]

or a version of gnuplot which outputs shiny xara-engine charts with anti aliasing, gradients etc...

[John Rayner]

Once the linux version hits the servers, they will be swapped for quite a while...

[ktenney]

If Xara has a blank slate as far as scripting goes,
please look at using Python for the language.

It would make me sad if scripting required learning
a Lisp derivitave or VB. (or Perl, or Postcript, or something brand new ...)

Thanks,
Kent