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Read this post for the answer.

Gerry

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I read that RL is not ready.
I'm not in the subject with Python yet.
But there were options, headers of procedures, objects, variables, IDE can be taken from a DLL or other files?

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Hi,

Python API, if I well understood the doc after a preliminary reading, is based on pyside2, which wraps Qt libraries and framework.
For the Qt GUI, there is an UI Designer tool on the Qt website.
There is also an IDE on Qt, including an extension for Visual Studio (but only for Express version),
Therefore any development that does not touch a RL native object can probably be done with those tools.
That may sound limiting but it depends on the type of plug-in and how much intelligence/processing is located "outside" of iClone assets.
Instead as soon as the code interacts with RL native objects (which means it is executed within iClone), then we have only an output console.

Regarding the integration with non-python libraries, there is the "shiboken" wrapper library that is used to connect iClone internal objects to the Python engine but probably also to connect non-Python code ro the Pythin engine.

Cheers

  Roberto

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This came recommended as IDE: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/features/python/.

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thank you animagic, team discuss your request and decide to try it in days, any update will let you know.

do you know what is the difference between visual studio community edition and visual studio code?

Lajos

What is the difference between VS Code and VS Community?

Visual Studio Code is a streamlined code editor with support for development operations like debugging, task running and version control. It aims to provide just the tools a developer needs for a quick code-build-debug cycle and leaves more complex workflows to fuller featured IDEs.

Basically VS Code is for more hardcore/serious programming.

Check HERE for a comparison chart.

Jeff

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I would rather say: Visual Studio Community is FREE, others are not.
I think for most of us here is enough in terms of differences 

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VSCode is free and open source and runs on linux too.
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode

it has python extension

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/python


VS comm ed. is not open source

Lajos