7.6

Show or Hide the Commands Area or Spy List 206
Adjust the Sizes of the Commands Area, Code Area and Spy List 207
Expand or Collapse Command Groups 207
Enter Commands in the Editor 207
Use Command and Variable Name Completion 208
Dynamic Images 209
PlanetPress Talk Expressions for Dynamic Images that Reference Image Resources 209
PlanetPress Talk Expressions for Dynamic Images that Reference External Images 210
Physical Location of Dynamic Images 210
Host-Based or Printer-Based Document Execution 210
Image Format 211
Summary of Execution Environments 211
Examples of PlanetPress Talk Expressions that Resolve to Pathnames 212
Image Name and Pathname Resolution in Dynamic Images 213
Custom Data Selections 213
PlanetPress Talk Before and After 214
Creating and using Runpages 215
Convert an Object to PlanetPress Talk 215
PlanetPress Talk Basics 217
Assumed Knowledge 217
PlanetPress Talk 217
PlanetPress Talk Terminology 219
The Elements of PlanetPress Talk 219
PlanetPress Talk Syntax 220
Data Types 222
Variables 224
System Variables with Local Scope 225
System Variables with Global Scope 225
System Objects with Global Scope 226
Current System Object 226
Runpage 229
Using Foreign Language Text with PPtalk 229
Learning PlanetPress Talk 233
Integrate PlanetPress Talk into Documents 234
Define and Assign Values to Variables 234
Select Data 235
Use Functions as Arguments 235
Debug Scripts 235
Tips and Tricks 235
Code Samples 236
Print a variable number of copies of a page based on a value in the datastream 236
Store two lines of input data on one line of the data page 237
Print a page n-up 238
Print a line of text on odd-numbered pages 239
Determine the proper page to print based on the width of the data in the data page 239
Language Reference 241
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