Re: { SPAM 1 }::Re: Any ideas on how to match and balance

[James H Gundlach <gundljh@auburn.edu>]

Ronald,
    BBEdit is the programming editor of choice on the Mac.
         Jim Gundlach
On Jan 22, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Ronald Cross wrote:

> Thanks for the response.  I am not a Windows user so I will not be  
> able to incorporate any of these editors.  I have looked around on  
> my machine (An apple computer) for applications that can do  
> parenthesis matchings and Xcode appears to do the job.
> Thanks for the other scripting advice in terms of making dynamic  
> plots and graphs.  Except for PREPEND, all the other commands are  
> available for JMP 4.
> What a pity that JMP doesn't incorporate this simple feature into  
> their script editor?
> thx
> RLC
> On Jan 22, 2006, at 8:15 AM, chem engineer wrote:
>
>
> > Ron - best approach is to use a stand alone programming  
> > editior ... like
> > WinEdit or Crimson Editor. I use crimson, and have set it up to  
> > recognize
> > key words int he JMP scripting language. Matching parenths is easy  
> > since
> > this editor highlites them.
> >
> > I have programmed 5000+ lines of JMP script in the last 2 years.  
> > And know your
> > frustration, and believe me ... you are just scratching the  
> > annoyance zone with
> > this initial complaint.
> >
> > Spend time learning the EXPR, NAME EXPR, SUBSTITUTE, PARSE, EVAL
> > commands ... when making complex dynamics scripts these are  
> > important.
> > For dynamic displays spend time learning the DELETE, APPEND, PREPEND,
> > CHILD, SIB commands as these (JMP 5 and on) are key in making dynamic
> > displays.
> >
> > While JMP JSL is not truly OOP a lot of the OOP design concepts do  
> > play out,
> > yet the limit of not being able to perform class construction and  
> > subsequent
> > instantiation is a true limitation.
> >
> > Best of luck ... and if you have a specific problems ... post em  
> > at the mailing list,
> > This is the best place for answers.
> >
> > Don
> >
> >
> > Ronald Cross <roncross@cox.net> wrote:
> > Hi all, I am using JMP 4.0.4 for mac running a G4 powerbook with
> > 1GByte of RAM with a 1GHz power pc processor on OS X 10.4.3.
> > However, this version of jmp runs under OS 9 (classic).
> >
> > I have been developing some scripts and the most frustrating thing
> > about JMP scripting is the matching and balancing of parenthesis. I
> > was wondering if the community has any ideas on how to easily matc h
> > and balance parenthesis. Trying to balance these manually is very
> > time consuming.
> >
> > Is the script editor any more advance in JMP version 5 for Mac?
> >
> > thx
> > RLC
> >
> >
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