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Originally posted by Zero
I would prefer to not rely on 3rd party tools like MPL's XML infrastructure or an external app that does the job.
Messenger Plus! Live's XML interfaces infrastructure is not a third party tool when you are programming a Messenger Plus! Live script!
That's like saying: "I'm building a website but I don't want to do my design in HTML." The scripts you make are already using the infrastructure delivered by Messenger Plus! Live, so why would you refrain from using other parts of that same infrastructure? Also, if I follow your thinking process: why would you use
any of the provided infrastructure at all? Why wouldn't you simply write the hooking procedure in C++ yourself to interact with Messenger? Would that make your result better?
Sure, it'd be a lot more interesting if we could have a designer tool for this, but is that a reason not to use XML? Do you have any idea what a huge task it is to define your own window classes, create your own windows, manually add every control to it and control the whole thing all by yourself?
Seriously, there's nothing wrong with using Plus! Live's interfaces XML when making a Plus! Live script. It was made to make things lots easier for script developers, which is why we have much more developers making magnificent scripts compared to the days where this was done through a Plus! plug-in DLL where you still had to do almost everything yourself regarding interfaces.
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