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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I don't remember how good the manual is, though the E-Basic Help from within the program is useful, especially if you have a question that's specific to E-Prime, not to VBA (on which E-Basic is based) in general. <BR>
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I also found the O'Reilly book on VBA very useful when I was doing more E-Prime programming than I do now; the one I have is called VB & VBA in a Nutshell: The Language. It's from 1998, but I don't think E-Basic has changed very much since then. <BR>
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For instance, I used that book when I needed to know how to specify colors that don't have names in E-Prime, since it could tell me how VBA represents colors (and the E-Basic Help was silent on the issue, as far as I could tell). I imagine any book on VBA would do -- I just liked that one because it's got an alphabetical listing of the various components of the language; I wasn't interested in a tutorial, just a reference.<BR>
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Hope this helps,<BR>
Susan<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: e-prime@googlegroups.com on behalf of David McFarlane<BR>
Sent: Mon 4/28/2008 2:40 PM<BR>
To: e-prime@googlegroups.com<BR>
Subject: Re: getting started with script<BR>
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At 4/27/2008 03:08 PM Sunday, you wrote:<BR>
>I have built quite a few experiments using the e-prime studio, and I<BR>
>have some basic understanding in writing script (with matlab at<BR>
>least). is there a file available with basic information regarding how<BR>
>to define integers, how to jump backward or forward in the experiment<BR>
>procedure etc?<BR>
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So far as I know, you have exactly two resources: (1) Chapter 4 of<BR>
the E-Prime User's Guide (printed or .pdf) (2) The online E-Basic help.<BR>
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I don't know how useful the User's Guide is for this, I already knew<BR>
a lot of programming principles before I started on E-Prime and I<BR>
have mostly puzzled things out myself, but now that I've taken a<BR>
glance at Chapter 4 I can see it might have saved me some work. (I<BR>
would be curious to get others' takes.)<BR>
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I have found the online E-Basic help to be much more useful (in<BR>
E-Studio, go to Help > E-Basic Help). Even so, be warned that the<BR>
online help is still incomplete (e.g.,<BR>
<A HREF="http://support.pstnet.com/forum/Topic1241-12-1.aspx">http://support.pstnet.com/forum/Topic1241-12-1.aspx</A> ), and in some<BR>
cases just plain wrong (e.g.,<BR>
<A HREF="http://support.pstnet.com/forum/Topic1197-5-1.aspx">http://support.pstnet.com/forum/Topic1197-5-1.aspx</A> ).<BR>
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Finally, E-Basic is really a dialect of Microsoft Visual Basic, so<BR>
you might gain something from VB manuals. Unfortunately, most of the<BR>
VB manuals I find are geared toward explaining how to design GUI<BR>
elements rather than how to write code, so I cannot recommend one, if<BR>
someone else knows a good VB reference I would be glad to know it.<BR>
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-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder<BR>
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