Constants Reference

Installation Pathes (Constants.ahk)

The following constants may be used to refer to all the relevant locations of the Simulator Controller distribution.

kHomeDirectory, kResourcesDirectory, kSourcesDirectory, kIncludesDirectory, kBinariesDirectory, kConfigDirectory, kLogsDirectory

All these constants define paths pointing to a specific folder in the Simulator Controller distribution. In deviation to Windows standards, the paths contain a trailing backslash, since in allmost all cases, a filename will be concatenated to one of these constants in order to access this file.

kSplashImagesDirectory, kButtonBoxImagesDirectory, kIconsDirectory

Paths for graphical resources.

kSimulatorConfigurationFile, kControllerConfigurationFile

Paths for the most important configuration files used by Simulator Controller.

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Global Configuration Map (Constants.ahk)

One global configuration map exists for simulator controller, which define the capabilities, the controller mapping and the configuration of all active plugins.

kSimulatorConfiguration

The global configuration map. This map is read from kSimulatorConfigurationFile and the content is maintained by the setup tool (*)

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Log Levels (Constants.ahk)

kLogInfo, kLogWarn, kLogCritical, kLogOff

Define the various log levels used by the logging functions. See Debugging and Logging for more information.

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Controller Function Types (Constants.ahk)

Used to identify the different types of controller functions in a configuration map. See the subclasses of Function for reference.

k1WayToggleType, k2WayToggleType, kButtonType, kDialType, kCustomType

All currently defined controller function types.

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Miscellaneous Constants (Constants.ahk)

Additional constants used by Simulator Controller.

kUndefined

May be used by functions to denote a default value for optional parameters that might be boolean values.

kVersion

The current version of Simulator Controller according to the VERSION document in the root folder.

kSilentMode

If this is true, all applications of Simulator Controller adopt accordingly and woll not use any splash screens or other visual or audio feedback.

kTrue, kFalse, kActivate, kDeactivate, kIncrease, kDecrease

Miscellaneous constants, which define string representations for typical code elements.