If you want to know more about how the system is built, you can read the following document (253 pages).

How is the platform architectured: models, objects, clients, servers, ….

The scripting documentation entry point.

If I were you, I would start by reading the following documentation articles: But it has never been ported to the new Altium Designer documentation system (“/documentation”)! The Altium teams don’t seem very much involved in pushing the scripting system forward.įor that reason I would take the “techdocs” documentation as a reference (last update in late 2017).īecause the Altium Designer SDK probably shares the API with the scripting system, the Delphi SDK reference documentationcould be considered as the “updated version” of the scripting system documentation. The today’s version is better in terms of organization and readability (“”). It was very difficult to find where to start when you were a newcomer. The first version of the scripting documentation (“”) was a nightmare.

For the moment… Documentation for scripts developers DelphiScript (*.pas) is assumed to be the one and only language for scripts.ĭon’t worry, the other languages cited above are still supported. IMPORTANT NOTICE: Since Altium Designer version 18, you’re not asked what language you want to work with while creating a script file. The syntax is quite, but not strictly, similar to VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), widely used for MS Office macros. At least the vast majority of examples are written with this language.įrom what I have seen so far, VBScript holds the second position. The most widely used is probably DelphiScript.

TCL (no dedicated scripting page, does it mean restricted support?).

Using scripts in Altium Designer Available programming languagesĪltium Designer is bundled with different script interpreters, supporting the following languages:

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