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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

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 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