Simkin Examples

There are several examples included with this distribution. They are located in the examples sub-directory where you installed Simkin.

• HelloWorld - a very simple example that prints "Hello World"

• Person - this example shows Simkin calling into a Java object

• ArrayExample and Array.xml - this example shows Simkin calling accessing arrays.

• Scriptloader - a small Java program that loads an XML file whose name appears on the command line, and runs a method called main within it.

  You can use this to run the following example scripts:

  • Simple - shows some simple Simkin script

    To run this, change to the examples\simple directory and type:

    java simkin.examples.scriptloader.Scriptloader Simple.xml
    

  • FieldAccess - shows code accessing elements and sub-elements

    To run this, change to the examples\fieldaccess directory and type:

    java simkin.examples.scriptloader.Scriptloader FieldAccess.xml
    

  • Enumerate - shows code enumerating elements within an XML element

    To run this, change to the examples\enumerate directory and type:

    java simkin.examples.scriptloader.Scriptloader Enumerate.xml
    

• ScriptedDialog - shows how you can use Simkin within an XML file to construct "on-the-fly" dialog boxes.

  This example uses Dialog.xml to describe the dialog.

  To run the example, change to the examples\dialog directory and type:

  java simkin.examples.dialog.ScriptedDialog Dialog.xml
  

• Inherits - shows how you can extend the Simkin classes to provide an "inheritance" feature in your XML files.

  Other files in this example are:

  • InheritsElement.java
  • InheritsExecutable.java
  • child.xml
  • parent.xml

  To run the example, change to the examples\inherits directory and type:

  java simkin.examples.inherits.Inherits child.xml
  

• DynamicTreeNode - shows how you can add fields to TreeNodes (and other objects) on-the-fly in your scripts. The object set up in the Java is called by the script dynamic.dat.

  To run the example, change to the examples\dynamic_treenode directory and type:

  java simkin.examples.dynamic_treenode.DynamicTreeNode
  

• SimkinServlet - shows how you can execute Simkin script within a servlet. The script is sent to the servlet via form index.html.

  You will need to configure your Java application server to run the servlet and set up the URL's in the form appropriately.