AVOSUPPORT - macros:type

Boolean

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-10-29T16:35:50+00:00

Boolean A boolean value is the most digital type possible: it can only be Yes or No. Nothing else. However, while in many programming languages there are several synonyms for both (0 and 1, yes and no, and more), it is always best to stick to one pattern - and this pattern shall be

Double

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-03-28T18:10:58+00:00

Double A value of type “double ” is a double precision floating point number. For the computer, it is 64 bits where one is used for the sign (+ or -), 11 are used for an exponent (power) of 2, and 52 are used for the fractions... In a brief: double values can be positive or negative, can represent fractions (e.g. 0.25 or 3.75) - and hence are usually the result of division/multiplication operations. They are being used where the precision of a

Enum

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-12-27T09:49:38+00:00

Enum Data of the Enum, or Enumerated, type is data with a fixed, limited number of options. Usually (as far as to be seen in Titan) the options need to be given as String. As far as known, the possbible values for a property of type Enum should be denoted in the property's wiki post - see the properties below in

EventPropergation

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-03-29T09:57:04+00:00

Titan Type EventPropergation This is nowhere documented and simply derived from the Playbacks.AppendOrInsertPlaybackStep function definition which lists EventPropergation as return value. It is believed that this is, apart from the obvious typo, an analogon for the return value Void in conjunction with the idea that this event is passed on to other instances.

Flag

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-09-09T18:35:36+00:00

Flag It is assumed that th data type 'Flag' is similar to the type Enum Data of the flag type is data with a fixed, limited number of options. Usually (as far as to be seen in Titan) the options need to be given as String. Also used in

Float

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-10-29T16:34:36+00:00

Float In general, in many programming languages Float is used as a synonym for Single: a 4 byte word holding a floating point numeric value in single precision, according to IEEE 754. It is assumed that this is also true in the context of macros: the function ActionScript.SetProperty.Float requires a single value in order to set a float property. Also, the

IEnumerable

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-06-12T13:45:58+00:00

IEnumerable This is a kind of a collection of objects where the system can walk through. E.g. when multiple handles are selected and you want to apply a certain function to each of them, IEnumerable is probably the type this functions needs to cope with.

Int32

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-10-29T16:32:18+00:00

Int32 An Int32 value is a numeric value, positiv or negative, with no decimal places: it is an integer, or integral value. Many of the values you give are integer values, e.g. 0, 1, 25, 50, or 100. In particular, indexes (e.g. the number of the page, or the playback thereof), user numbers, or IDs (if numeric) ar usually Int32 values.

List`1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-08-24T14:35:44+00:00

List`1 A list of values of a certain type, e.g. a list of handle indexes An example is Handles.SetSourceHandleRange("Workspaces", {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11}) The type of the values - in this case: Int32 - is defined elsewhere.

Null

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-11-17T14:29:28+00:00

Null The Null type is the counterpart of Void and is used for function input parameters, to tell a function that expects a parameter being set that this parameter is empty. Nil. Nada. Nothing. (You might contemplate the important difference between 0 as a value, followed by 1, 2

Object

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-06-25T13:24:12+00:00

Object As this is a very simplified documentation, we may retreat to the following statement: while 'primitive' values - like strings, singles etc. - contain only one value, objects are more complex. A very basic example is given in the overview on types: imagine an address which is composed maybe of a street name, a number, a zip code, and a city - then the whole thing is the address object, and the individual values are the properties of this object.

Single

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-10-29T16:34:38+00:00

Single A value of type “single” is a single precision floating point number. For the computer, it is 32 bits where one is used for the sign (+ or -), 8 are used for an exponent (power) of 2, and 23 are used for the fractions... In a brief: single values can be positive or negative, can represent fractions (e.g. 0.25 or 3.75) - and hence are usually the result of division/multiplication operations.

String

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-11-19T14:22:10+00:00

String A string is comprising of one or more letters and numbers forming one or more words. Furthermore, a string might contain some symbols/special characters. In most cases you will note that inside strings there are only . (full stops) and , (commas) - but this is more convention than a fixed rule. Strictly, any number and combination of characters and symbols can be regarded a string - but that's way beyond the scope of this wiki.

Void

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-10-29T16:58:46+00:00

Void Into the great wide open Under them skies of blue Out in the great wide open A rebel without a clue… (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) Void is something like the no-type: it says 'there is, or will be, absolutely no data'. This is used as return value for functions which don't return anything. See