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Scripting tips & tricks

General Information

Jacques TUR

Ninox is a typed and precompiled language. This means that the data types handled by the language are known in advance, unlike other languages such as JavaScript, which can handle variables without knowing their types.

One of the major advantages of Ninox is that the code it generates is particularly reliable, with malfunctions occurring only on very rare occasions.

For your information, Ninox script is compiled into JavaScript before being executed.

Nested and Linear Code

Each function or statement returns a value that can be directly passed as a parameter to another function or statement:

var a := format(now(), "DD/MM/YYYY");

Thus, it is possible to assign a set of nested code to a variable:

var a := true;

var b := if a then "true" else "false";

It is also possible to assign to b the result of a block of linear code enclosed in parentheses:

var b := (

var a := true;

if a then "true" else "false" end

);

It is important to keep in mind that, in the case of linear code, the last line always determines the type and value returned. In this example, b will be equal to 10:

var b := (

var a := true;

if a then "true" else "false" end;

);

Methods

Methods are functions that take one or more parameters and return a value. Both the parameters and the return value are predefined.

Some methods can have multiple parameter configurations:

date(year, month, day) Returns a date value.

date(myTimeValue) Converts a given time-related value to a date value. If the value is a number, it represents the Unix time in milliseconds.

Refer to the official Ninox documentation for a complete

list of methods⁠

and their

classification by category⁠

Instructions

var, if then else, for, switch, select where, etc., are instructions.

Unlike methods, the return types of instructions depend on the code they contain. For example, the following code will return an array of numbers [1, 2]:

for i in range(1,3) do

end;

Nested and Linear Code

Methods

Instructions

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