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Analytica Scripting Guide
Release 3.0
October, 2003

Lumina
Decision Sytems

Copyright notice

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Acknowledgments

Analytica Scripting Guide was written by Richard Sonnenblick and Hugh Silin

Contents

1. Introduction

The Typescript Window

To Open the Typescript window from within Analytica

To Use Typescript from a program making use of ADE

Conventions used in this guide

2. Objects and Their Attributes

Creating New Objects

Attributes That are Longer Than One Line

Object classes

Class Hierarchy

Identifiers of Objects

Abbreviations of Identifiers

User-Specified Attributes

Computed Attributes

User Interface Attributes

Inspecting Objects

Current Objects

Modifying Attributes

Deleting Objects

List Command

Objects and Attributes: Summary

3. Files and Editing

Module Files

Format of ‘Regular’ Module Files

Editing

Adding Modules

Updating an Existing Model

Data Files

Models and Editing: Summary

4. Arrays

The Table Function

The Array Function

Size of a Dimension

Selecting Parts of an Array

The Slice Function

The Subscript Function

Re-formatting Arrays

The Reform Function

Controlling Tabletype and Delimiter

Arrays: Summary

Appendix A: Language Summary

Attributes

User-specified Attributes

Computed Attributes

User Interface Attributes

Commands

Inspection Commands

File Commands

User Interface Commands

Miscellaneous Commands

Object Manipulation Commands

Keywords

Parts of Expressions

Classes

Variable classes

Module classes

Button classes

Sysfunctions

Sysvars

Other System variables

Syntax

Esoteric/Obsolete/Not Implemented objects

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