Hello World!

As is traditional, we will start with a simple ‘Hello World’ example. This script installs a new command in the command menu which, when clicked, launches an ‘alert’ that says “Hello World”.

constant meta = "Script by YOUR NAME. http://YOUR_URL"

// ON LOAD, INSTALL A MENU COMMAND TO LAUNCH YOUR SCRIPT

on Load
  InstallMenuCommand("Hello", "Hello")
end

// THE SCRIPT CALLED 'HELLO' WILL LAUNCH WHEN THE MENU COMMAND
// IS CLICKED

on Hello

  let greeting = "Hello World"

  syslog(greeting)
  Alert(greeting)

end

To install, you can follow these steps:

Option A: Copy / Paste

• copy the text of the script above;
• open the MWScript editor (Show > Scripts or Ctrl+Shift+S);
• click ”+” in the bottom left corner;
• choose Add a new script;
• name it “Hello_World”;
• paste in the text;
• click Activate (green button at the top of the screen) to activate the script.
  

Option B: Download and Install

• make sure MoneyWorks is open (preferrably in the sample document, Acme Widgets);
• download the script here;
• open the file;
• click Yes to install;
• click Close to close the installation dialogue;
• click Activate (green button at the top of the screen) to activate the script.
  

Running the Script

Once installed and activated, the script adds a new ‘Hello’ command to the command menu.

Click Command > Hello and you will see a ‘Hello World!’ alert.

Open the MWScript editor at Show > Scripts ( or Ctrl + Shift + S), click on ‘Log Files’ and you will see that ‘Hello World’ has also been printed to the log file.

In the next post, we’ll take a closer look at how this all works.