Learning other programs?
14-Apr-95 23:53:54
Sb: #10089-Learning other programs?
Fm: John Grieggs 76152,1645
To: David Magill 71513,64
David,
>>What is ISL?
Wow, what an opening! 🙂
ISL is the Imagine Staging Language. Basically, it's an ASCII version of the
staging file, with programs to convert back and forth.
ISL makes certain operations much easier. For example, if you want to do an
operation on a bunch of objects in a stage, you can use one of the ISL programs
to convert the stage to ASCII, use your favorite text editor to make the
changes, and use one of the other ISL programs to convert it back. This is
especially useful when you need to move a project to a different directory.
It's much nicer to use an editor to make 50 changes than to navigate with the
mouse, pop up a box, select the right field, edit, and close the box for each
one!
It comes with a utility to join two stages together, and a piece of sample code
showing how to programmatically generate a stage. There are also a number of
other utilities floating about which can use or depend on ISL, so it can be a
handy thing to have lying around.
ISL is (inexpensive) shareware. The unregistered version may be found in the
file library here.
_john