[Bf-funboard] Extensible scripting from buttons

[Mark Constable]

Perhaps this is already kinda possible via python
but it would be really nice to be able to create
my own button panels with user-defined buttons that
execute whatever I want.

For instance after finishing a render of jpegs I'd
love to be able to go to a different panel and
simply click on "Make mpeg2" which really calls a
simple shell script such as...

 #!/bin/sh
 [ ! -f ${1}0001 ] && echo "${1}0001 does not exist" && exit 1
 FRAMES=${2:-61}
 jpeg2yuv -Ip -b1 -n$FRAMES -v1 -f25 -j $1%04d | \
  mpeg2enc -f3 -b9000 -q2 -41 -21 -V 500 -P -g3 -G12 -I0 -o $1.m2v
 [ -f $1.mp2 ] && mplex $1.mp2 $1.m2v -o $1.mpg

And then another one called "Show mpeg2"...

 #!/bin/sh
 xine -f -l $1.mpg

... etc. If this was possible (without using python) I
would start to use Blender as my general desktop system
with buttons called "Gimp" and "mozilla" and...

--markc