Want to learn

[Toshio]

Ok, I'm gonna be honest I'm 15 and I want to learn how to script. Can anyone make it easy enough for me to understand, and help me learn scripting?

[TJS]

You bet! This forum is full of people that would love to help you out. My first suggestion is to go to the user guide (http://www.indigorose.com/webhelp/ams60/) for AMS and review the "Scripting Guide" section on the contents tab. This will introduce you to the important concepts with some very good examples. Once you have read through you should understand how to:
1) store information in variables (or tables)
2) perform different operations on your information like math and comparisons
3) Apply logical controls to like "if something then do something else"

You don't have to understand it all right away. Just focus on what you think you will use now and worry about the rest when you need it. Tables, custom functions, string manipulation can probably wait for now.

Next, go to the "Action Reference" section and read through the "Alphabetical List". This is a list of all the actions that come with AMS out of the box and will give you a good overall understanding of how you can use AMS to interact with the user and the computer it is running on.

Hope this helps. Come back here with any questions and have fun!

[Toshio]

ok I got a question..what does AMS stand for?

[jfxwave]

AutoPlay Media Studio

[Toshio]

ok is that the only software i'll need if not what else will i need?

[jfxwave]

Take a look at http://www.indigorose.com/site/products.php and read what all there apps do and decide if you need anymore.

[Toshio]

So I know I should of looked for this before but what all can do with scripting

[Intrigued]

Before you get into a barage of asking questions you would be showing good form (working on getting "props") if you take time to read the forum's posts here (doing searchs for specific topics), reading all of the documentation for AMS (AutoPlay Media Studio), and finally asking questions when you run into a problem.

That's my recommendation because that is how I started out and it has worked out fine for me.

Welcome aboard, code long and prosper (Spock Hand Sign).

:p

[Toshio]

This is a nice forum. I just wanted to ask if anyone could help me n real time (I.E. A Instant mesenger.) If someone could that would be nice. I am not on right now (because I am at school) I will be on at 3:00PM (Eastern Central Time)

[yosik]

As you have noticed, this forum is attended by people ready and willing to help.
Start working, ask your questions and you will get responses, sometimes minutes after asking. We are all working and our time is precious but we all feel that helping each others is a good way to spend it.
Welcome to the AMS family!!
Yossi

[TJ_Tigger]

I have some training videos (TiggTV) that I have posted. Mostly around SQLite to begin with. You will find the link to the site in my sig. I hope to put out more in December if I can find the time.

Tigg

[Toshio]

Ok i got autoplay and i am looking at the the guide that was givin to me but it appears that the guide is out of date or i got the wrong autoplay because they dont sync up.

[Intrigued]

1. Launch AMS
2. Click the F1 key (Help)

[Toshio]

I found it

[Intrigued]

Another way I learned the Actions and what they do as well was what they return (like a variable that holds a value you will need later), is to have the Script area of one of the areas in AMS (Say for the default Page of a new project) open and focused (click on it), then do the combo ALT+A to get a list of all of the AMS Actions. Then I went one-by-one down each reading everything (I did this four or five times in all) and read what each does and how to use each, make sure to check the examples there too. Before you know it you will be flying along making more and more powerful applications.

It may sound like a long time but if you put, I would say, between three (3) and six (6) months of day-in-day out effort into AMS you will be in a good position to create applications and even applications for monies! (for pay)

[Toshio]

ya that sounds like it will work but im running on the trial version for 1 month and I know i can't afford to buy it and I don't know if i can keep re-downloading it.

[TJS]

Try it out. You won't be able to keep re-downloading, but you will learn a few things and find out if you like AMS. If you do, you could ask for it as a gift or you could look at other open-source or freeware products instead.

[Toshio]

I got a program called SCAR its for a game i play it uses scripting do you think that would work?

[Intrigued]

If you want to stick somewhat with AMS you could look at coding for now (and it can help you in the long run with AMS, because it's the language AMS uses for scripting) in LUA.

www.lua.org

And here is the online version of one of the LUA books:

http://www.lua.org/pil/

[Toshio]

Ok iv'e been working with AMS and actually created myfirst project. But now I want to know is, Is there a way for AMS to gather information off a open Internet Explorer. (did I explain that correctly?)

[Intrigued]

Here is a thread where I explain how to do such. I do not have time to go through all the steps, but give it a try and see how you can add this functionality to your AMS projects. Get the plugin needed from www.icynorth.com (free offering).

Thread:

http://www.indigorose.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14433&highlight=HTML+code

[TJS]

@toshio

If you ever have trouble explaining you what you are trying to do, you can always post an export of you project. Then other forum members can download and preview it. To do so, click on File>Export and follow the instructions. The export will produce a .apz file that you can attach to your post here.

[Toshio]

@Intrigued
thx for the info

@TJS
Thank you too