The ProntoScript Module Template is a configuration file that serves as a backbone for building your ProntoScript module. Philips recommends starting with this file and adding your own integration functionality.

Prints, restores or stores single- and multidimensional arrays into/from System Globals. Print shows the data in source format (=> ProntoScript console). This function invokes the Array Dimensions Utility called getDimensions. Includes examples, explanations and a test case.

function = dumpArray (action, arrayName, dimensionalData, uptoColumns)

• action = "print", "restore" or "store"
• arrayName = name of the array, within quotes
• dimensionalData format = [((#planes, )#rows, )#columns]
• uptoColumns=option to store on element level

Yields the dimensions of an array in the format [((#planes, )#rows, )#columns] or in the format ((#planes, )#rows, )#columns.

function = getDimensions (array, format, dimensions, level)

• array=name of the array, without quotes
• format=if omitted, typeof result is object; if any value, typeof result is string
• dimensions & level are for internal use only (it is a recursive function)

The trace function is a logic debugging aid used with Pronto Script console, intended to offer more than System.print. It has 4 optional user definable arguments:

function = trace (location, variables, traceDecision, traceType)

• trace () prints the function that called trace
• trace ("here") also prints user supplied location information
• trace (variables), where variables is an array of variable names prints the content of the variables. Each name between quotes.
• trace ("locA", variables, 1) prints also line with variable types
• trace ("locB", variables, 2) prints only a line with variable types, below the location information (caller function + location)

Although it is a quite a large function (a.o. due to the various possibilities and checking), it is easy to use.

Makes a widget blink for a given number of times at a given frequency.

function = blink (blinkData)

blinkData = [widgetTag, blinkQuantity, blinkFrequency]

v1.1 Prints, restores or stores a set of variables into/from System Globals. Keeps the original type of the variables when they are restored. Print shows the data in source format (=> ProntoScript console). Although I have programming experience, I am a javascript beginner and hobbyist related to the pronto TSU9600. Javascript experts can improve the code for sure. I tested it in my TV channel application, in which it appears to work well.

function = dumpVariables (action, variables)

• action = "print", "restore", "store"
• variables = ["myVar1", "myVar2", etc]