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  Dr. Scripter looks the 4.30d release.

  Errata for previous release versions.

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In last month's Dr. Scripter, we discussed weak referencing, a significant feature of the newly released ScriptEase ISDK 4.30d. However, there are other noteworthy improvements found in this latest release, which we highlight below.

Create Wrappers Automatically

4.30d includes the wrapper.jse script (located in the tools folder), which reads C header files and create SE:ISDK/C wrappers automatically. For example, with this header file:

char *foo(int a,int b);
int zoo(char *str,int length);

Wrapper.jse would create a .c file with the functions, tables, and initializers to call these two function from within a script.

We intend to add improvements to wrapper.jse and so we look forward to feedback on what should be added.

Optionally Force ECMAScript-Compliant Object Definition

ScriptEase has traditionally allowed objects to be defined automatically, just by referencing a member. For example,this script:

var foo;
foo.a = 14;

would automatically make "foo" be an instance of an Object. While flexible and desirable under certain circumstances, this behavior does not conform to the more rigid ECMAScript specification.

Therefore, with "#define JSE_AUTO_OBJECT 0" in your jseopt.h file you can now disable this behavior, so that the above script would generate an error and instead would have to be written as:

var foo = new Object();
foo.a = 14;

Faster Auto-Increment And Auto-Decrement

Version 4.30d improves how the virtual machine handles increment (++) and decrement (--). They now execute noticeably faster and handle prototypes of the global. 

New Radix Option for Number.prototype.toString()

The ECMAScript specification is unclear about how the radix operation is to be handled with number.toString(radix); previous releases of SE:ISDK/C have ignored that parameter. With the 4.30d release radix will be used as most script-writers expect, so that the following script will create the string "19 13 10011":

var foo = 19;
var foostr = foo.toString()
+ " " + foo.toString(16)
+ " " + foo.toString(2);

The radix options can be enabled by adding #define JSE_NUMBER_TOSTRINGWITHRADIX 1 in your jseopt.h file

Have a question about how to use ScriptEase:ISDK? Let Dr. Scripter know at http://support.nombasxxx.com/.