[Scilab-users] SCILAB Equivalent of addpath function

[Samuel Enibe]

Thank you very much, Samuel.

I am using version 5.5.2 on Ubuntu 18.04.

Could you please let me know how to locate the the scilab.ini and the
startup files?

Thank you very much.

God bless you.

Samuel Ogbonna Enibe


On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:18 AM Samuel Gougeon <sgougeon at free.fr> wrote:

> Le 30/05/2019 à 11:19, Samuel Enibe a écrit :
>
> Thank you very much for your quick response.
>
> In using SCILAB, I create a folder for a given class of problems. The
> user-defined functions for the problem class are stored in the  folder. I
> use the SCILAB function *genlib to* create a functions library for the
> user-defined functions in the folder..
>
> On startup of SCILAB, I would have to run *genlib* again or* lib* to make
> those user-defined  functions available for use.
>
> Is there a way of telling SCILAB to search a given folder or folders for
> user-defined functions? In this way, I would not have to run* lib *or
> *genlib* during each SCILAB session.
>
>
> Why don't you load your custom libraries within your scilab.ini or .scilab
> startup file? load() can be used (more safely than lib()) to do so.
>
> However, this way won't prevent them from being cleared by the first
> "clear" (all) statement in the console (but this is the same for ATOMS
> modules loaded during the session).
>
> To answer your question: As far as i know, no, there is presently no
> native mechanism looking for libraries in a series of paths, to load on the
> fly, or looking for a series of function definitions.sci to execute on the
> fly.
>
> But it can be tentatively implemented by using the %onprompt
> <https://help.scilab.org/docs/current/en_US/percentonprompt.html>
> mechanism. "--> uman %onpromt @
> <http://mailinglists.scilab.org/path-tp3416444p3417057.html>" will tell
> you more about it.
>
> Best regards
> Samuel Gougeon
>
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