Re: [MUD-Dev] Usability and interface

["Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com>]

On 22 Sep 97 at 8:31, Koster, Raph wrote:
> On Sunday, September 21, 1997 8:19 AM, Ola Fosheim 
> Grostad[SMTP:olag#ifi,uio.no] wrote:
> > Of course, there is no problem preventing scripting with a 
> graphical
> > interface (and an obscure internal protocol). ;->
> 
> Wish this were in fact the case. But you can script a graphical 
> interface just fine. Perhaps not to the depth that you can script a 
> more easily parsable text interface, but certainly enough. :)

Aye.  I find myself grudgingly acknowledging this.  I had included 
this as one of my "advantages" in supporting your own client.  On 
reflection methinks not.  Scripting a GUI can be done quite easily 
with the proper tools (even while using the custom client).  
Scripting a graphical interface to a graphical mud poses more 
challenges than scripting a graphical interface to a text mud. 
In fact a significant portion of my work at my current client is 
involved with creating GUI interfaces into existing menued and 
full-screen text-based mainframe applications.  

--
Jon A. Lambert

If I'd known it was harmless, I would have killed it myself.