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Clairekun

Germany
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Posted - 10/13/2013 :  3:52:01 PM  Show Profile  Edit Topic  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Delete Topic
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Hello, I would like to know the best way to learn labtalk. I have browsed the wiki and the manual for version 8.5, but the former explains too little when trying to use advanced features and the latter is too basic to write a full script from scratch making use of them.

Since I have read it is based in C, would it be useful to learn this language? It would be worth it anyway because of my job but, if I could use this knowledge for "advanced" labtalk, it would be just perfect.

Is there a better approach for this? Thank you.

cdrozdowski111

USA
247 Posts
Posted - 10/14/2013 :  8:43:33 PM  Show Profile  Edit Reply  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Delete Reply
Hey,

I'm not a pro with Labtalk but I've written a bunch of complex scripts- maybe too complex. I was already familiar with simple programming so I had an advantage but the best way I found to learn Labtalk was to dig into scripts created by the folks at OriginLab.

There are some scripts in your User Folder and a few in the Origin folder. Try opening them in Code Builder and study how they do what they do.

One thing I do to ensure that I don't screw anything up is to copy the script files into a completely separate directory and open those in Code Builder. That way if I accidentally change anything in any files while digging through them, I won't mess up the original file.

The following is also a great resource:

http://wiki.originlab.com/~originla/ltwiki/index.php?title=Category:LabTalk_Programming
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Clairekun

Germany
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Posted - 10/15/2013 :  03:59:25 AM  Show Profile  Edit Reply  Reply with Quote  View user's IP address  Delete Reply
Thank you, I'll start with that. Maybe after some time I won't have to post here every single time I need a script!
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