QUOTE(kurianos3d @ 04/26/07, 02:40 PM) [snapback]264921[/snapback]
or you can use webbrowser also for this 8 and 8.5 is having
ie and firefox integration in maya that way you can do it
do your suite with php or asp and you integrate with maya
plugin check in maya for the installing and config browser
Yes you can do this (check out XAMPP Lite), but you need to set up a php page which needs to be acessed and this is really not a nice solution.
There is very little coding to do if you do it with the API. Although setting up the libraries is a bit tricky. But you gain a good deal of speed with that directness and the php interpreter won't fire up and eat up system resources
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(that's without accounting for the overhead which the mel protocol handler adds to this workflow, hmm, wait, probably that handler is not needed, but the interface to the web browser... ).