Serious First Steps In UserTalk Scripting
by Matt Neuburg
Author of the book Frontier: The Definitive Guide
An old saying, sometimes wrongly attributed to Thoreau, runs: "Give a man a fish and he eats for day; teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime." In this tutorial we'll do both. UserTalk programming is our fish; we'll catch fish together, and then you'll know enough to be able to do all the fishing you want on your own.The Frontier "learning curve" is much vaunted, but take a few steps along it and you've trampled it flat.
Writing Frontier scripts is fun, easy, and satisfying. Most important, it's very useful; the power is there, waiting for your needs and your imagination to grow to take advantage of it.
Let's go!
All text is by Matt Neuburg, phd, matt@tidbits.com.
For information about the book Frontier: The Definitive Guide, see my home page:
http://www.tidbits.com/matt
All text copyright Matt Neuburg, 1997 and 1998. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
No one else has any right to copy or reproduce in
any form, including electronic. You may download this material but you may not post it for others to
see or distribute it to others without explicit permission from the author.
Downloadable versions at http://www.ojai.net/matt/downloads/scriptingTutorial.hqx and http://www.ojai.net/matt/downloads/scriptingTutorial.zip.
Please do not confuse this tutorial with a certain other Frontier 5 tutorial based upon my earlier work.
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