Dos commands

[Polaris30]

Hi

Can Zscripts issue dos commands?
If so can the dos commands have command line arguments? (-h or/h or\h)

I am trying to execute and external dos command from Zbrush to load a text file into GNU Aspell (Free open source spellchecker).

the command would be something like,

Aspell textfilename.txt

after the command is issued i am going to have the script re-load the text file into the Zbrush notepad...
this would be cool to add to marcus Notepad Zscript too!

actualy the command would be something like
..\program files\aspell\aspell TextFileNameHere.txt

well,,, I guess i can set Aspell global enviornment variable, so that Aspell is in my path=

[Digits]

When we get access to the Zscript SDK and are able to link Zscripts with calls to a dll you will be able to write such an animal. Hopefully this information will be available after the next release.

Meanwhile, it is possible to write to a file with Zscripts which then you could externally open that file in another program.

[Polaris30]

Great, thanks Digits

cant wait for the SDK release... I bet there are a bunch of other useful utilitys launched when this happens

Have a good day

[billrobertson42]

So you can't call out to external functions in a dll yet?

Bummer. That sort of ruins my plans for a 3dZText plugin.