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Software Development => PCL and PJSR Development => Topic started by: peabody1998 on 2019 November 14 12:08:51

Title: Hello World Writing Scripts Tutorial
Post by: peabody1998 on 2019 November 14 12:08:51

I'm an old programmer but am new to PixInsight development.  I would greatly appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction to a "Hello World" beginners tutorial on how to start writing scripts in PixInsight. I am firstly interested in developing scripts to automate workflow. TIA.
-- Rich

Title: Re: Hello World Writing Scripts Tutorial
Post by: mschuster on 2019 November 14 16:23:52

In Script Editor View:

File > New > JavaScript Source file (.js)
Paste text below, save
Execute > Compile & Run

Include files are in Pixinsight/include/pjsr.
Distribution script source files (ie examples) in Pixinsight/src/scripts.

Classes, methods, and parameters are listed in Object Explorer View. No additional docs, but names themselves are a helpful prompt.

Code: [Select]

#include <pjsr/StdIcon.jsh>
#include <pjsr/StdButton.jsh>

console.writeln("Hello world");

(new MessageBox(
   "Hello world",
   "",
   StdIcon_Information,
   StdButton_Ok
)).execute();


Title: Re: Hello World Writing Scripts Tutorial
Post by: peabody1998 on 2019 November 14 17:47:10

Thanks. Works perfectly!
And away I go.....

--Rich