VectorScript Tech. Documentation

[Studio-PM]

Once upon a time I mastered VectorScript programming (legacy ver. 8.5), now I'd like to know what happened meantime [I could reconsider...]. Therefore:

Any idea where/how to get complete & updated tech. documentation of this language? I mean, printed documentation [I'm an old fashioned, nostalgic printed-paper lover...], without still buying the whole package. Thanks!

Yours,

- P.M.

Edited August 14, 2017 by Studio-PM
[I first forgot to specify "printed documentation", crucial...]

[Pat Stanford]

What is officially available is located here:  http://www.vectorworks.net/support/custom

 

But that is only current through VW 2015.

 

Try contacting your sales contact and ask them to send you the following documents so you can do a full evaluation before purchase. Hard copies have not been available in a long time. You will have to print yourself. The Function Reference is a hyperlinked document and would be "interesting" to print into a useable format.

 

Vectorscript Function Reference as HTML

 

Vectorscript Function Reference Appendix as HTML.

 

You want to versions of all of the above from the  VWHelp folder in Applications/Vectorworks 2017/VWHelp/Script Reference. You want the entire Script Reference folder.

 

The Vectorscript Language Guide is available for download from http://developer.vectorworks.net/index.php/VectorScript#Language_Guide. But his has a copyright of 2013 so it is a little out of date also.  There are a number of useful things on that same page/site, but again they are mostly for VW2015/2016 so not the most recent. I used to use the online version of the function reference, but have switched to the local both for speed of access and to have the most recent info, but I still access developer.vectorworrks.net to check out the annotated function reference if I am having trouble.

 

Hope this helps.

Pat

[Studio-PM]

14 hours ago, Pat Stanford said:

your sales contact 

...

Hope this helps.

Pat

 

> Hope this helps.

   Thanks, it does. Indeed, so far, just one element is still missing, precisely:

> your sales contact

   As a developer I've experienced here around a generalized indifference, if not hostility, for such “peculiar” kind of user. Therefore now I'm looking for:

– A contact with the original (English) source of the product [a mail sent to Sales@vectorworks.net has been so far ignored...];

– Best of all would be now to become somehow loosely and fairly associated with a team of other developers, so to deal as a group/association, not as an isolated free-lance as I am, o more precisely, as I actually was [now I'm simply re-considering]. Any idea? Thanks.

Yours,

- P.M.

[Pat Stanford]

There have been some discussions in the past on some type of developers group, but never any real movement.

 

You might find that more of the people you are interested in working with may hang out on the Vectorscript-L mail list rather than here.  http://www.vectorworks.net/community/mailinglists

 

Regards,

Pat