I took a look at a cached version of the LUA/VB thread you posted (a live version didn't come up), and only being able to use existing scripts through COM is a definite limitation. I would think that it would be possible to code up some sort of dll that would be able to talk contain function calls between VB.NET and LUA. There is a project out there for a LUA implementation with the dotNET framework, but I don't know if it would be able to be used from within GH or Ecotect. In regards to using LUA from GH, I'm not sure if there's any potential to write LUA directly in GH (it would be nice though). Plus, if you're going to have to worry about parsing the xml yourself, it will be easier to do so with your own tags and much leaner as well. The main reason being that gbXML is a fairly big beast, and invariably you'll have information that you might want to transfer that won't necessarily be able to be contained within the gbXML schema, so you might wind up having to add your own tags anyway. Although its tempting to try and do this via gbXML files, IMHO if you're writing the code its almost more worth it to just figure out an XML structure yourself. I think that XML is a good way to get that nongeometric data back and forth between applications. I'll through in my 2 cents here, since I've been contemplating a connection to Ecotect but haven't had the time to really fully investigate it.
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