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Just to be clear, I have a work around that seems to fix this crash.  Anim8or still draws the view a little whacky but it doesn't crash.

#096-007 - Click-drag in Drag-Select Mode can Crash for Unfocused Anim8or Window.

I can't see what's wrong.  Check your variable declarations perhaps?  Both your first one and this script works for me (it's a portion of your second example).  After you run it, do a Edit->SelectAll and view it in wirefreame mode in the point editor.  You may be able to see somthing  that helps.  Also save it as an .an8 file and look at that in any ordinary text editor.

/* script_2.an8 */

shape $mymesh;

int $i, $x, $y, $index[100];

$mymesh = mesh();
$mymesh.Open();

$index[0] = $mymesh.AddPoint((0, 0, 1));
$index[1] = $mymesh.AddPoint((1, 0, 1));
$index[2] = $mymesh.AddPoint((2, 0, 1));
$index[3] = $mymesh.AddPoint((3, 0, 1));
$index[4] = $mymesh.AddPoint((4, 0, 1));
$index[5] = $mymesh.AddPoint((5, 0, 1));
$index[6] = $mymesh.AddPoint((6, 0, 1));
$index[7] = $mymesh.AddPoint((7, 0, 1));
$index[8] = $mymesh.AddPoint((8, 0, 1));
$index[9] = $mymesh.AddPoint((9, 0, 1));
$index[10] = $mymesh.AddPoint((0, 1, 1));
$index[11] = $mymesh.AddPoint((1, 1, 1));

/* assigning meshpoints to faces (or is it faces to meshpoints?) */

$mymesh.OpenFace(0,0);
$mymesh.VertexN($index[0]);
$mymesh.VertexN($index[1]);
$mymesh.VertexN($index[11]);
$mymesh.VertexN($index[10]);
$mymesh.CloseFace();

$mymesh.RemoveUnusedData();
$mymesh.Close();

As the scripting language is extended you'll be able to write more plug-ins, etc. to enhance Anim8or.  If you want to help out in other was, things like writing good tutorials would be appreciated by everyone.

Is the .gml script in your "Scripts" directory?  (See the File->Configure dialog to set this.)  If not then it won't load and won't show up in the export list.

Great idea.  along those lines, I've experimented making all the values update real-time (even better that an Apply button) but there are numerous problems with that approach (besides the sheer volum of code I'd need to write).  The main one is that you might need to set two fields to have valid value.  The intermediate state could be wrong.  Things quickly got so complex I dropped that approach.

As for an Apply button, the big problem is that the Undo mechanism was added after Anim8or was designed.  It's quite fragile and handled in a multiple ways depending on how the original code was written.  Figuring out how to manage Apply, Reset and Undo would be hard.

However I can see if it will work in some places perhap.

Vobla, right-clicking is already used to add multiple objects.  But bringing up a dialog is a good idea, perhaps with the middle button?  Or with Ctrl-click?

What you need is a dialog that you can prompt users for input from a running script.  I have this partially implemented (and so not yet available).  It's quite a bit of work to do a full blown dialog so I want to limit it to simple things initaliiy.  I plan to add prompts for an integer, a float, a 3d point, and a string as well as a Yes/No answer to a question.  Comments?