[Scilab-Dev] Private functions in a .sci file <= Re: Multiple Functions in a sci file

[Tan Chin Luh]

Hi Samuel,

Thanks for your answers.

best regards,
Chin Luh

On 22/2/2017 5:22 AM, Samuel Gougeon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le 16/02/2017 à 06:04, Tan Chin Luh a écrit :
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to troubleshoot the issue on the guibuilder in Scilab 6 
>> windows platform as reported by :
>>
>> https://atoms.scilab.org/toolboxes/guibuilder/3.1#comment2713
>>
>> -----------
>> I used guibuilder in 5.5.2 and was able to create a gui, open an existing gui.  I just
>> installed it for 6.0 and the guibuilder launches, but am unable to create anything, i
>> get the error "Undefined variable: draw_uicontrol5" for anything that I click on
>> to
>> create. Or even to open an existing GUI.
>> -----------
>>
>> I tried to reproduce the error in a simpler manner:
>>
>> 1. Write a simple sci file with 2 functions in it.
>>
>> function y = test1(x)
>>     y = x+1;
>> endfunction
>>
>> function y = testa(x)
>>     y = x+2;
>> endfunction
>>
>> 2. Put the file in a folder and use genlib to generate the lib
>>
>> 3. Load the library and call "test1(1)" and "testa(1)"
>>
>> In Scilab 5.5.2, both functions are callable, but in Scilab 6, only 
>> test1 is, and calling testa will either return error "undefined 
>> variable" or just crashed the Scilab.
>>
>> Is this meant to behave this way under "new parser and new core"?
>>
>
> AFAIK : yes.
> Now, only the first function defined in the file (or the one whose 
> name matches the file name? To be tested) is public. All other ones 
> are private (their domain is unclear: (likely) only the main function? 
> or the whole library it belongs to? To be tested and documented).
> One of the (nice) consequences is that, now none of the private 
> functions appears in the whos list of defined functions. They were 
> formerly rather spamming the list.
>
>> I try to screen through what's news in Scilab 6 and bugzilla, and the 
>> similar but not exact issue found is : 
>> http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14525
>>
>
> You are right, i don't think it is already correctly documented. There 
> were some discussions on users@ about this change since mid-2015, but 
> since Scilab 5.5.2, the genlib() help page was improved for Scilab 5, 
> without being updated for Scilab 6.
>
>> I try to avoid breaking out all the functions to separate files as it 
>> will be tones of files in the folder then.
>>
>
> I am afraid that, if each of your functions is -- say -- a callback, 
> it must be public, and then now it requires to be defined in a 
> separate .sci file.
>
> Regards
> Samuel
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> dev mailing list
> dev at lists.scilab.org
> http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/dev


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.scilab.org/pipermail/dev/attachments/20170222/7c880418/attachment.htm>