Helper functions and global variables

[David McFarlane]

David,

Stock reminder:  1) I do not work for PST.  2) PST's trained staff 
really does like to take any and all questions at 
http://support.pstnet.com/e%2Dprime/support/login.asp , and they strive 
to respond to all requests in 24-48 hours -- this is pretty much their 
substitute for proper documentation, so make full use of it.  3) If you 
do get an answer from PST Web Support, please extend the courtesy of 
posting their reply back here for the sake of others.

That said, here is my take ...

1) Study Chapter 4, "E-Basic", of the User's Guide that came with 
E-Prime.  (Beyond that, do yourself a favor and work through all of the 
Getting Started Guide and User's Guide; you may leave the Reference 
Guide for later.)

2) The online E-Basic Help may not work because Vista removed support 
for the older (and long deprecated) .hlp format.  To enable the online 
E-Basic Help, you must either download and install the .hlp reader for 
Vista from Microsoft, or install a newer version of EP2, which comes 
with online E-Basic Help in the newer .chm format (which has its own 
problems).

3) Although the online E-Basic Help is indeed the closest we get to 
actual technical documentation, it will not answer all your questions as 
it is incomplete and in several places just plain wrong.  So beware, you 
still have to user your own wits when figuring out E-Prime.

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


On Monday 24 May 2010 David Allen wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm new to e-prime and the last time I did visual basic was 7 years
> ago. I am, however, an experienced programmer. Unfortunately I'm stuck
> using e-prime on a vista machine, which breaks the help (where I'm
> certain I could find the answers to my questions).
> 
> How does one go about defining helper functions (functions in an
> inline script that can be referred to anywhere in the project) and
> global variables (the same but in variable form)? I found the visual
> basic syntax for each and tried to just use it inside an inline script
> but the compiler threw errors like "Found: Function Expected:
> <statement>" for
> 
> function foo as integer
> return 1
> end function
> 
> Any help or pointers to good resources besides the help file will be
> much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks, David

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