Hi Jan, thank you for your insight.

> "Dark Magic Power Moves"

If that's your manner to say "the hard way", thanks for the
encouragements !

Adam

On Sep 2, 9:59 pm, Jan Berger <[email protected]> wrote:
> A short answer would be yes, you can do it and it gives a loooot of
> possibilities,
> but if you are talking abou a script in the context of a bunch of commands
> being executed one after another, you should realize that with calling the API
> you may run into undo/redo issues.
>
> I have done it in production but only to do really opportunistic stuff,
> like copying mesh data around without creating tweaks etc.
> and where creating a scripted or not plug-in would have caused
> too much overhead.
>
> But I really like this combo of API and Python and can only
> encouraged to go down
> the path of "Dark Magic Power Moves" as I call it ; )
>
> At 18:56 02.09.2011, you wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> >More precisely, if there is a boundary between python scripting and
> >API calls, how is it formalized ?
>
> >Thanks
>
> >Adam
>
> >On 2 sep, 18:52, wannAPI <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > This is a very basic question:
>
> > > Is it possible to make API calls from the command line, or should they
> > > in general be considered apart from python scripts ? Aren't both of
> > > the same nature ?
>
> > > This might sound odd but that's one of the conceptual point I'm
> > > missing personally.
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