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Analytica Scripting Guide
Release 3.0
October, 2003

Lumina
Decision Sytems

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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 3

To Use Typescript from a program making use of ADE 4

Conventions used in this guide 5

2. Objects and Their Attributes

Creating New Objects 6 Attributes That are Longer Than One Line 8 Object classes 9 Class Hierarchy 10 Identifiers of Objects 11 Abbreviations of Identifiers 11 User-Specified Attributes 12 Computed Attributes 14 User Interface Attributes 15 Inspecting Objects 19 Current Objects 21 Modifying Attributes 21 Deleting Objects 22 List Command 22 Objects and Attributes: Summary 23 3. Files and Editing 25 Module Files 25 Format of ‘Regular’ Module Files 25 Editing 27 Adding Modules 30 Updating an Existing Model 31 Data Files 33 Models and Editing: Summary 34 4. Arrays 35 The Table Function 35 The Array Function 37 Size of a Dimension 38 Selecting Parts of an Array 39 The Slice Function 40 The Subscript Function 41 Re-formatting Arrays 42 The Reform Function 43 Controlling Tabletype and Delimiter 44 Arrays: Summary 47 5. System Variables 49 Appendix A: Language Summary 53 Attributes 53 User-specified Attributes 54 Computed Attributes 56 User Interface Attributes 57 Commands 61 Inspection Commands 61 File Commands 63 User Interface Commands 64 Miscellaneous Commands 65 Object Manipulation Commands 66 Keywords 67 Parts of Expressions 67 Classes 68 Variable classes 69 Module classes 70 Button classes 70 Sysfunctions 71 Sysvars 72 Other System variables 72 Syntax 75 Esoteric/Obsolete/Not Implemented objects 76 Index 79