Function Reference

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	* [[Core Function isSymbol|isSymbol( <expression> )]] -- Check if string contains only symbol chars		* [[Core Function isSymbol|isSymbol( <expression> )]] -- Check if string contains only symbol chars
	* [[Core Function isUpper|isUpper( <expression> )]] -- Check if string contains only uppercase chars		* [[Core Function isUpper|isUpper( <expression> )]] -- Check if string contains only uppercase chars
−	* [[Core Function isXDigit|isXDigit( <expression> )]] -- CHeck if string contains only hex chars	+	* [[Core Function isXDigit|isXDigit( <expression> )]] -- Check if string contains only hex chars
	* [[Core Function LC|LC( <expression> )]] -- Returns string in all lower case		* [[Core Function LC|LC( <expression> )]] -- Returns string in all lower case
	* [[Core Function LCFirst|LCFirst( <expression> )]] -- Lower Cases first letter of string		* [[Core Function LCFirst|LCFirst( <expression> )]] -- Lower Cases first letter of string

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Contents 1 Function Reference 1.1 How to create a Function 1.2 Core Functions 1.2.1 Language Features 1.2.2 Console Functions 1.2.3 Multi-Threading Functions 1.2.4 Variable Type Conversions 1.2.5 Common Variable Functions 1.2.5.1 Misc 1.2.5.2 Hash/Array 1.2.5.3 Type Checking 1.2.5.3.1 Get Type Directly 1.2.6 Binary Data Management Functions 1.2.7 Math Functions 1.2.8 String Functions 1.2.9 Array Functions 1.2.10 Hash (Dictionary) Functions 1.2.11 Process Functions 1.2.12 Environment Management 1.2.13 File Functions 1.2.13.1 File Create/Read/Write Functions 1.2.13.2 Misc 1.2.13.3 Dialogs 1.2.14 Directory Functions 1.2.14.1 Dialogs 1.2.15 Path Functions 1.2.16 Network Functions 1.2.16.1 HTTP Functions 1.2.16.2 MySQL Functions 1.2.16.3 Sputnik Client/Server Functions (This is just for connecting Sputnik Clients to Sputnik Servers nothing else) 1.2.16.4 Misc Network Functions 1.2.17 GUI Functions 1.2.17.1 Dialog Creation Functions 1.2.17.2 Dialog Properties Get/Set Functions 1.2.17.3 Control Creation Functions 1.2.17.4 Event Linking Functions 1.2.17.5 Common Dialog/Control Properties Get/Set Functions 1.2.17.6 Control Properties Get/Set Functions 1.2.17.7 Other GUI Functions 1.2.18 Keyboard Control Functions 1.2.19 Mouse Control Functions 1.2.20 Window Management Functions 1.2.20.1 Controls 1.2.21 Pixel Functions 1.2.22 Misc Functions 1.3 User Defined Functions

Function Reference

How to create a Function

To create your own funtions see the Function page.

• User Defined Functions

Core Functions

Language Features

• <Expression> =~ m/pattern/flags -- Match a string to a regular expression pattern and check if it matches and optionally return captured groups
• <Expression> =~ s/pattern/replacement/flags -- Replace parts of a string using a regular expression pattern and optionally executing functions on the matched groups

Console Functions

• Print( <expression> ) -- Prints an expressions string value to the console window
• Println( <expression> ) -- Prints an expressions string value to the console window and inserts a newline charactor at the end.
• Printf( <expression>, <expressions>... ) -- Print a formatted string to the console window
• Input( <expression> ) -- Capture a string typed to console window
• InputC( <expression> ) -- Capture a char typed to console window
• Cls( ) -- Clear all text from the console window

Multi-Threading Functions

• ThreadCreate( <name>, <function> ) -- Create a new thread and start it off executing a function or some code
• ThreadSleep( <name> ) -- Freeze a thread and make it sleep
• ThreadResume( <name> ) -- Unfreeze a thread and allow it to continue execution
• ThreadState( <name> ) -- Returns state of a thread
• ThreadKill( <name> ) -- Terminate a thread and remove it from the script
• ThreadExists( <name> ) -- Check if a thread exists by this name
• ThreadName( ) -- Returns the name of the current thread that is executing this code
• Threads( ) -- Return an array of all threads

Variable Type Conversions

• Char( <expression> ) -- Returns the single letter representation of an expression
• Byte( <expression> ) -- Returns the unsigned 8-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• SByte( <expression> ) -- Returns the signed 8-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• Short( <expression> ) -- Returns the signed 16-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• Int16( <expression> ) -- Returns the signed 16-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• Int32( <expression> ) -- Returns the signed 32-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• Int( <expression> ) -- Returns the signed 32-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• Int64( <expression> ) -- Returns the signed 64-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• Long( <expression> ) -- Returns the signed 64-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• UShort( <expression> ) -- Returns the unsigned 16-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• UInt16( <expression> ) -- Returns the unsigned 16-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• UInt32( <expression> ) -- Returns the unsigned 32-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• UInt( <expression> ) -- Returns the unsigned 32-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• UInt64( <expression> ) -- Returns the unsigned 64-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• ULong( <expression> ) -- Returns the unsigned 64-bit integer (whole number) representation of an expression
• Float( <expression> ) -- Returns the 32-bit floating point representation of an expression
• Double( <expression> ) -- Returns the 64-bit floating point representation of an expression
• String( <expression> ) -- Returns the String representation of an expression

Common Variable Functions

Misc

• Unset( $variable ) -- Delete a variable
• IsDeclared( <variable name> ) -- Check if a variable has been declared

Hash/Array

• Reset( $variable ) -- Reset the current array pointer to the first element
• Next( $variable ) -- Set the array pointer to the next element
• Prev( $variable ) -- Set the array pointer to the previous element

Type Checking

• isVarChar( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a char type
• isVarByte( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is an unsigned 8-bit integer type
• isVarSByte( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a signed 8-bit integer type
• isVarShort( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a signed 16-bit integer type
• isVarInt16( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a signed 16-bit integer type
• isVarInt( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a signed 32-bit integer type
• isVarInt32( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a signed 32-bit integer type
• isVarInt64( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a signed 64-bit integer type
• isVarLong( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a signed 64-bit integer type
• isVarUShort( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is an unsigned 16-bit integer type
• isVarUInt16( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is an unsigned 16-bit integer type
• isVarUInt( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is an unsigned 32-bit integer type
• isVarUInt32( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is an unsigned 32-bit integer type
• isVarUInt64( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is an unsigned 64-bit integer type
• isVarULong( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is an unsigned 64-bit integer type
• isVarFloat( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a single precision floating point type
• isVarDouble( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a double precision floating point type
• isVarString( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a string type
• isVarNumber( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is any integer or float/double type
• isVarBinary( $variable ) -- Checks if a variable is a binary type
• isVarRef( $variable ) -- Check if a variable is an reference to another variable
• isVarArray( $variable ) -- Check if a variable is an array
• isVarObj( $variable, <type> ) -- Check if a variable is an object type (This includes classes, file handles etc)
• isVarClass( $variable, <type> ) -- Check if a variable's object type is a class
• isVarGUI( $variable ) -- Check if a variable's object type is a GUI
• isVarGUIObject( $variable, <type> ) -- Check if a variable's object type is a GUI Object (Buttons etc)
• isVarDLLStruct( $variable ) -- Check if a variable holds a DLLStruct
• isVarServer( $variable ) -- Check if a variable holds a Server object from Listen()
• isVarClient( $variable ) -- Check if a variable holds a Client object from Connect()
• isVarClientSocket( $variable ) -- Check if a variable holds a Client socket object

Get Type Directly

• GetVarType( $variable ) -- Get the common type of a variable
• GetVarObjType( $variable ) -- Get the common object type of a variable (If it is an object)
• GetVarGUIObjType( $variable ) -- Get the common object type of a variable (If it is a GUI object)

Binary Data Management Functions

• Pack( <expression>, <expressions> ) -- Pack data into a binary array
• Unpack( <expression>, <binary-array> ) -- Unpack data from a binary array
• BinaryCreate( <size>, <fill> ) -- Create a new binary variable and its array size and fill data type
• BinaryClone( <binary-array> ) -- Clone a binary variable 100% and return a new binary variable with exactly same data as the old one
• BinaryWipe( <binary-array> ) -- Wipes a binary variables data 100% and sets the variable to a blank int containing just 0
• BinaryStr( <binary-array>, <separator> ) -- Create a Hex string from a binary array
• BinaryHex( <expression> ) -- Create a binary array from a hex string
• BinaryLen( <binary-array> ) -- Returns the number of bytes in a binary variable
• BinaryGet( <binary-array>, <index> ) -- Get the byte at an index of a binary variable
• BinarySet( <binary-array>, <index>, <value> ) -- Set the byte at an index of a binary variable
• BinaryReverse( <binary-array>, <start>, <length> ) -- Reverse the order bytes a binary variable
• BinaryMid( <binary-array>, <start>, <length> ) -- Create a binary variable by extracting a number of bytes from another binary variable
• BinaryAppend( <binary-array>, <binary-array2>, <flag> ) -- Append a binary variables data onto the end or beginning of another binary variables data
• BinaryInsert( <binary-array>, <binary-array2>, <index> ) -- Insert a binary variables data into another binary variable at a specific location
• BinaryUnshift( <binary-array>, <byte> ) -- Add a byte to the beginning of a binary variable
• BinaryPush( <binary-array>, <byte> ) -- Add a byte to the end of a binary variable
• BinaryShift( <binary-array> ) -- Delete the first byte from a binary variable
• BinaryPop( <binary-array> ) -- Delete the last byte from a binary variable
• BinaryResize( <binary-array>, <size>, <data> ) -- Resize a binary variables data array
• BinaryCompress( <binary-array> ) -- Compress a binary variables data
• BinaryUncompress( <binary-array> ) -- Uncompress a binary variable data
• BinarySave( <binary-array>, <file>, <flag> ) -- Save a binary variable data to file
• BinaryLoad( <file>, <flag> ) -- Create a new binary variable by loading binary data from a file

Math Functions

• Abs( <expression> ) -- Calculates the absolute value of a number
• ACos( <expression> ) -- Calculates the arcCosine of a number
• ASin( <expression> ) -- Calculates the arcsine of a number
• ATan( <expression> ) -- Calculates the arctangent of a number
• BitAND( <expression>, <expression2>, <n> ) -- Performs a bitwise AND operation
• BitNOT( <expression> ) -- Performs a bitwise NOT operation
• BitOR( <expression>, <expression2>, <n> ) -- Performs a bitwise OR operation
• BitSHIFT( <value>, <shift> ) -- Performs a bit shifting operation
• BitXOR( <expression>, <expression2>, <n> ) -- Performs a bitwise exclusive OR (XOR) operation
• Ceiling( <expression> ) -- Returns a number rounded up to the next integer
• Cos( <expression> ) -- Calculates the cosine of a number
• Cosh( <expression> ) -- Returns the hyperbolic cosine of the specified angle
• Exp( <expression> ) -- Returns e raised to the specified power
• Floor( <expression> ) -- Returns the largest integer less than or equal to the specified number
• Log( <expression> ) -- Returns the logarithm of a specified number
• Math( <expression> ) -- Parse a string containing mathematical equations
• Max( <expression>, <expression2> ) -- Find the greater number and return it
• Min( <expression>, <expression2> ) -- Find the lesser number and return it
• Mod( <expression>, <expression2> ) -- Performs the modulus operation
• Pow( <expression>, <expression2> ) -- Returns a specified number raised to the specified power
• Random( <expression> ) -- Get a random number from the defined area.
• Round( <expression> ) -- Returns a number rounded to a specified number of decimal places
• Sin( <expression> ) -- Returns the sine of the specified angle
• Sinh( <expression> ) -- Returns the hyperbolic sine of the specified angle
• Sqrt( <expression> ) -- Returns the square root of a specified number
• Tan( <expression> ) -- Returns the tangent of the specified angle
• Tanh( <expression> ) -- Returns the hyperbolic tangent of the specified angle
• Turncate( <expression> ) -- Calculates the integral part of a specified decimal number

String Functions

• Asc( <expression> ) -- Returns the ASCII code of a character.
• AscW( <expression> ) -- Returns the UNICODE code of a character.
• Chr( <expression> ) -- Returns a character corresponding to an ASCII code.
• ChrW( <expression> ) -- Returns a character corresponding to an UNICODE code.
• Contains( <sting>, <string>, <casesense>) -- Check if string contains a sub string
• Compare( <string>, <string> ) -- Compare two strings to each other
• Dec( <expression> ) -- Returns a integer representation of a hexadecimal string
• FDec( <expression> ) -- Returns a float representation of a hexadecimal string
• DDec( <expression> ) -- Returns a double representation of a hexadecimal string
• DecPad( <expression>, <count> ) -- Pads numeric string to a given number of chars (Filling in the gap with zeros)
• DecryptString( <expression>, <password> ) -- Decrypt a string with a given password
• EncryptString( <expression>, <password> ) -- Encrypt a string with a given password
• EndsWith( <expression>, <expression2>, <flag> ) -- Check if a string ends with a substring
• Hex( <expression>, <length> ) -- Returns a string representation of an integer type converted to hexadecimal
• FHex( <expression> ) -- Returns a string representation of an float type converted to hexadecimal
• DHex( <expression> ) -- Returns a string representation of an double type converted to hexadecimal
• InStr( <string>, <substirng>, <casesense>, <occurrence>, <start>, <count> ) -- Checks if a string contains a given substring.
• isAlpha( <expression> ) -- Checks if string contains only Alphabetic characters
• isAlphaNumeric( <expression> ) -- Checks if string contains only AlphaNumeric(A-Z, 0-9), Characters
• isASCII( <expression> ) -- Check if string contains only ASCII chars
• isEmpty( <expression> ) -- Checks if a string is completely empty.
• isFloat( <expression> ) -- Check if string contains a floating point and could be converted
• isLower( <expression> ) -- Checks if string contains only lowercase letters
• isNumeric( <expression> ) -- Checks if string only contains numbers
• isSpace( <expression> ) -- Check if string contains only whitespace
• isSymbol( <expression> ) -- Check if string contains only symbol chars
• isUpper( <expression> ) -- Check if string contains only uppercase chars
• isXDigit( <expression> ) -- Check if string contains only hex chars
• LC( <expression> ) -- Returns string in all lower case
• LCFirst( <expression> ) -- Lower Cases first letter of string
• LCLast( <expression> ) -- Lower Cases last letter of string
• LCWords( <expression> ) -- Lower Cases first letter of each word in string
• Left( <expression>, <count> ) -- Returns a number of characters from the left-hand side of a string
• Match( <expression>, <charset> ) -- Check if a string contains only characters from a substring
• MD5( <expression> ) -- Creates MD5 Hash of specified string
• PadLeft( <expression>, <pad>, <count> ) -- Pad the left of a string a given number of times with another string
• PadRight( <expression>, <pad>, <count> ) -- Pad the right of a string a given number of times with another string
• RandStr( <count> ) -- Generate a random sequence of characters at a given length
• Repeat( <expression>, <count>, <flag> ) -- Create a new string or new array containing repeats of a string provided
• Replace( <expression>, <find>, <replace>, <case-sensitive-flag> ) -- Replace substrings within a string with other strings
• Reverse( <expression> ) -- Reverse all characters in a string
• Right( <expression>, <count> ) -- Returns a number of characters from the right-hand side of a string
• SFormat( <expression> ) -- Returns a formatted string (similar to the C sprintf() function)
• SHA1( <expression> ) -- Returns SHA1 hash of string
• Split( <expression>, <delim/pattern>, <flag> ) -- Splits up a string into substrings depending on the given delimiters.
• SPrintf( <expression>, <expressions>... ) -- Create a formatted string
• StartsWith( <expression>, <expression2>, <flag> ) -- Check if a string starts with a substring
• StrInsert( <expression>, <index>, <expression2> ) -- Insert a string at a given index of another string and return the new string
• StrIndex( <expression>, <index> ) -- Get or set a char from/to a string at a specific index
• StrLen( <expression> ) -- Returns length of specified string
• SubStr( <expression>, <start>, <end> ) -- Return part of a string
• Trim( <expression> ) -- Removes whitespace from the beginning and end of a string
• TrimLeft( <expression> ) -- Strip whitespace from the start of a string
• TrimRight( <expression> ) -- Strip whitespace from the end of a string
• UC( <expression> ) -- Returns string in all Upper Case
• UCFirst( <expression> ) -- Upper Cases first letter of string
• UCLast( <expression> ) -- Upper Cases last letter of string
• UCWords( <expression> ) -- Upper Cases first letter of each word in string

Array Functions

• Join( <array>, <separator> ) -- Join an array into a string with an optional separator
• UBound( <array/binary-array> ) -- Returns the size of array (How many elements it currently has stored)
• Push( <array>, <expressions> ) -- Add items to the end of an array
• Insert( <array>, <id>, <expressions> ) -- Add items to an array at a given location
• Unshift( <array>, <expressions> ) -- Add items to the beginning of an array
• Pop( <array> ) -- Delete the first item in an array
• Shift( <array> ) -- Delete the last item in an array
• Remove( <array>, <start-id>, <end-id> ) -- Delete items from an array starting at a given location and stopping at a given location

Hash (Dictionary) Functions

Process Functions

• DLLCall( <dll>, <function>, <returntype>, <paramtypes>, <params> ) -- Dynamically call a function in a DLL
• DLLStructCreate( <def string> ) -- Creates a C/C++ style structure to be used with DLLCall
• DLLStructGetData( <dllstruct>, <element>, <index> ) -- Returns the data of an element of the struct
• DLLStructSetData( <dllstruct>, <element>, <index> ) -- Set the data of an element of the struct
• DLLStructGetSize( <dllstruct> ) -- Returns the size of the struct in bytes
• DLLStructGetPtr( <dllstruct>, <element>, <index> ) -- Returns the pointer to the struct or an element in the struct or even a specific index of an array object within an elment
• DLLStructGetVars( <dllstruct> ) -- Create an array of all items and their array size with total byte size
• Run( <file>, <arguments>, <workdir>, <flag>, <show options> ) -- Runs an external program
• RunWait( <file>, <timeout>, <arguments>, <workdir>, <flag>, <show options> ) -- Runs an external program and waits until the program finishes
• RunAsSet( <user>, <domain>, <password>, <options> ) -- Initialise a set of user credentials to use during Run and RunWait operations.
• ProcessClose( <pid/name> ) -- Terminates a named process
• ProcessExists( <pid/name> ) -- Checks to see if a specified process exists
• ProcessList( <name> ) -- Returns an array listing the currently running processes (names and PIDs)
• ProcessSetPriority( <pid/name>, <priority> ) -- Changes the priority of a process
• ProcessWait( <pid/name>, <timeout> ) -- Pauses the current thread until a given process exists or optional the timeout expires
• ProcessWaitClose( <pid/name>, <timeout> ) -- Pauses the current thread until a given process no longer exists or optional the timeout expires
• Shutdown( <shutdown code> ) -- Shuts down the system

Environment Management

• EnvExpand( <expression> ) -- Convert a string containing %name% env tags and return complete string with names resolved
• EnvGet( <tag> ) -- Get the value of an environment variable
• EnvSet( <tag>, <expression> ) -- Set the value of an environment variable
• EnvUpdate( ) -- Refreshes the OS environment

File Functions

File Create/Read/Write Functions

• FileOpen( <FileName>, <flag> ) -- Opens a file for reading or writing
• FileClose( <file> ) -- Closes a previously opened file
• FileWrite( <file>, <expression> ) -- Write text to previously opened file at the current File Steam pointer location
• FileWriteBinary( <file>, <binary-array> ) -- Write the data from a binary variable to previously opened file at the current File Steam pointer location
• FileAppend( <file>, <expression> ) -- Append a line of text to the end of a previously opened text file
• FileAppendBinary( <file>, <binary-array> ) -- Append the data from a binary variable to the end of a previously opened file
• FileSeek( <file>, <offset>, <flag> ) -- Change the POSITION of the File Stream pointer
• FilePos( <file> ) -- Get the current POSITION of the File Stream pointer
• FileRead( <file>, <expression> ) -- Read a number of characters from a previously opened text file starting from current File Steam pointer location
• FileReadBinary( <file>, <expression> ) -- Read a number of bytes from a previously opened file starting from current File Steam pointer location
• FileReadLine( <file>, <expression> ) -- Read a line of text from a previously opened text file (Or specify a name of a file)
• FileReadLines( <file> ) -- Read all lines of text from a previously opened text file (Or specify a name of a file)
• FileSave( <file>, <expression> ) -- Save all text to a file
• FileLoad( <file> ) -- Load all text from a file

Misc

• FileCopy( <file1>, <file2>, <flag> ) -- Copy a file
• FileDelete( <file> ) -- Delete a file
• FileExists( <file> ) -- Check if a given file exists
• FileCreationTime( <file>, <flag> ) -- Get the creation time of a file
• FileWriteTime( <file>, <flag> ) -- Get the last write time of a file
• FileAccessTime( <file>, <flag> ) -- Get the last access time of a file
• FileEncrypt( <file> ) -- Encrypt a file so only the windows account used to encrypt it can decrypt it
• FileDecrypt( <file> ) -- Decrypt a file previously encrypted by this windows user account
• FileMD5( <file> ) -- Calculate the MD5 checksum of a file
• FileSHA1( <file> ) -- Calculate the SHA1 checksum of a file

Dialogs

• FileSaveDialog ( <title>, <dir>, <filter>, <options>, <default name> ) -- Initiates a Save File Dialog
• FileOpenDialog ( <title>, <dir>, <filter>, <options>, <default name> ) -- Initiates a Load File Dialog

Directory Functions

Dialogs

• FolderSelectDialog ( <text>, <dir>, <flag>, <init dir> ) -- Initiates a Browse For Folder Dialog

Path Functions

• HasExtension ( <path> ) -- Determines whether a path includes a file name extension
• GetFullPath ( <path> ) -- Returns the absolute path for the specified path string
• GetDirectoryName ( <path> ) -- Returns the directory information for the specified path string
• GetExtension ( <path> ) -- Returns the extension of the specified path string
• GetFileName ( <path> ) -- Returns the file name and extension of the specified path string
• GetFileNameWithoutExtension ( <path> ) -- Returns the file name of the specified path string without the extension
• GetPathRoot ( <path> ) -- Gets the root directory information of the specified path
• IsPathRooted ( <path> ) -- Gets a value indicating whether the specified path string contains absolute or relative path information

Network Functions

HTTP Functions

• HTTPFileExists( <not available> ) -- Check if a file exists at a given URL
• HTTPGetString( <not available> ) -- Copy all text from a URL and return it as a string

MySQL Functions

• MySQLConnect( <ip/ip:port>, <login>, <password> ) -- Connect to a MySQL database
• MySQLSelectDB( <mysql>, <db name> ) -- Select a database
• MySQLQuery( <mysql>, <query> ) -- Execute a query
• MySQLFill( <mysql>, <query> ) -- Grab a table or parts of it from the Database
• MySQLFetch( <mysql data> ) -- Fetch the next row from a table
• MySQLFetchReset( <mysql data> ) -- Reset the current position in the table rows to 0
• MySQLFields( <mysql data> ) -- Return how many Fields are in the table
• MySQLRows( <mysql data> ) -- Return how many Rows are in the table
• MySQLClose( <mysql> ) -- Close a MySQL connection

Sputnik Client/Server Functions (This is just for connecting Sputnik Clients to Sputnik Servers nothing else)

• SSListen( <port>, <max connections>, <name> ) -- Create a server and begin listening for clients to connect
• SSConnect( <ip>, <port>, <connection string>, <name> ) -- Connect to a server
• SSApprove( <server>, <client socket> ) -- Approve a client to connect to the server
• SSDisapprove( <server>, <client socket> ) -- Disapprove a client to connect to the server
• SSClientStatus( /* depends... /* ) -- Get the status of a client or of our client
• SSClientIP( <server>, <client socket> ) -- Get the IP of a client socket
• SSRecv( <server/client> ) -- Check for a message recieved from client/server
• SSRead( <message buffer>, <data type> ) -- Read data from a message
• SSDrop( <server>, <client socket> ) -- Kick a client off the server
• SSSendBufferCreate( <server/client> ) -- Create a new buffer to store data to send to the client/server
• SSSendBufferAppend( <message buffer>, <type>, <data> ) -- Add data to the buffer to send such as Strings etc
• SSSend( /* depends... /* ) -- Send data to client or server

Misc Network Functions

• HostResolve( <host name> ) -- Resolves a host name such as google.com into an IP address
• Ping( <ip address/host name> ) -- Pings a host and returns the roundtrip-time

GUI Functions

Dialog Creation Functions

• GUICreate( <Title>, <Width>, <Height>, <Left>, <Top> ) -- Create new GUI window
• DoEvents( ) -- Keep GUI window active by dispatching all messages in the queue

Dialog Properties Get/Set Functions

• GUIState( <expression> ) -- Gets current GUI state
• GUISetState( <expression> ) -- Sets GUI state

Control Creation Functions

• GUICreateButton( <gui/container>, <name>, <text>, <left>, <top>, <width>, <height> ) -- Create a button
• GUICreateTextBox( <gui/container>, <name>, <text>, <left>, <top>, <width>, <height> ) -- Create a Textbox
• GUICreateTextBoxEx( <gui/container>, <name>, <text>, <left>, <top>, <width>, <height> ) -- Create a multiline Textbox
• GUICreatePassword( <gui/container>, <name>, <text>, <left>, <top>, <width>, <height> ) -- Create a Passweord Box
• GUICreateLabel( <gui/container>, <name>, <text>, <left>, <top>, <width>, <height> ) -- Create a Label
• GUICreateCheckBox( <gui/container>, <name>, <text>, <left>, <top>, <width>, <height> ) -- Create a CheckBox
• GUICreateTimer( <gui/container>, <name>, <interval> ) -- Create a timer
• GUICreateDataGrid( <gui/container>, <name>, <left>, <top>, <width>, <height> ) -- Create a Data Grid

Event Linking Functions

• GUILink( <gui/guiobject>, <linktype> ) -- Links an event to a GUI or GUI Object

Common Dialog/Control Properties Get/Set Functions

• GUIGetProp( <gui object>, <prop> ) -- Get the value of a GUI objects property
• GUISetProp( <gui object>, <prop>, <value> ) -- Set the value of a GUI objects property

Control Properties Get/Set Functions

• GUITimerStart( <timer> ) -- Starts specified timer
• GUITimerStop( <timer> ) -- Stops specified timer
• GUIDataGrid( <datagrid> ) -- Properties & Functions specifically for Data Grid

Other GUI Functions

• MsgBox( <message>, <title>, <flag>, <timeout> ) -- Show a message dialog
• InputBox( <title>, <message>, <default text> ) -- Shows a box to input text.
• ToolTip( <text>, <x>, <y> ) -- Creates a tooltip anywhere on the screen.
• ToolTipKill( <ToolTip> ) -- Delete a tooltip that was made using ToolTip().

Keyboard Control Functions

• HotKeySet( <keydef>, <expression> ) -- Create a custom hotkey to run custom code or execute a function.
• SendKeys( <keydef>, <flag> ) -- Sends simulated keystrokes to the active window

Mouse Control Functions

• MouseClick ( <button>, <x>, <y>, <clicks>, <speed> ) -- Perform a mouse click operation
• MouseClickDrag ( <button>, <x1>, <y1>, <x2>, <y21>, <speed> ) -- Perform a mouse click and drag operation
• MouseDown ( <button> ) -- Perform a mouse down event at the current mouse position
• MouseUp ( <button> ) -- Perform a mouse up event at the current mouse position
• MouseMove ( <x>, <y>, <speed> ) -- Moves the mouse pointer
• MouseGetPos ( ) -- Retrieves the current position of the mouse cursor
• MouseGetCursor ( ) -- Returns a cursor ID Number of the current Mouse Cursor
• MouseWheel ( <direction>, <clicks> ) -- Moves the mouse wheel up or down

Window Management Functions

• WinActivate ( <title>, <text> ) -- Activates (gives focus to) a window
• WinActive ( <title>, <text> ) -- Checks to see if a specified window exists and is currently active
• WinExists ( <title>, <text> ) -- Checks to see if a specified window exists
• WinGetHandle ( <title>, <text> ) -- Retrieves the internal handle of a window
• WinGetPos ( <title>, <text> ) -- Retrieves the position and size of a given window
• WinGetCaretPos ( ) -- Returns the coordinates of the caret in the foreground window
• WinGetTitle ( <title>, <text> ) -- Retrieves the full title from a window
• WinGetText ( <title>, <text> ) -- Retrieves the text from a window
• WinGetState ( <title>, <text> ) -- Retrieves the state of a given window
• WinGetProcess ( <title>, <text> ) -- Retrieves the Process ID (PID) associated with a window
• WinGetClientSize ( <title>, <text> ) -- Retrieves the size of a given window's client area
• WinClose ( <title>, <text> ) -- Closes a window
• WinKill ( <title>, <text> ) -- Forces a window to close
• WinMove ( <title>, <text>, <x>, <y>, <width>, <height> ) -- Moves and/or resizes a window
• WinWait ( <title>, <text>, <timeout> ) -- Waits until the requested window exists
• WinSetTitle ( <title>, <text>, <newtitle> ) -- Changes the title of a window
• WinSetState ( <title>, <text>, <flag> ) -- Shows, hides, minimizes, maximizes, or restores a window
• WinSetTrans ( <title>, <text>, <transparency> ) -- Sets the transparency of a window.

Controls

• ControlSend ( <title>, <text>, <controlID>, <string> <flag> ) -- Sends a string of characters to a control
• ControlGetFocus ( <title>, <text> ) -- Returns the ControlRef# of the control that has keyboard focus within a specified window.
• ControlGetPos ( <title>, <text>, <controlID> ) -- Retrieves the position and size of a control relative to it's window.

Pixel Functions

• PixelGetColour ( <x>, <y> ) -- Returns a pixel colour according to x, y pixel coordinates
• PixelSearch ( <left>, <top>, <right>, <bottom>, <colour>, <shade>, <step> ) -- Searches a rectangle of pixels for the pixel colour provided
• PixelChecksum ( <left>, <top>, <right>, <bottom>, <step> ) -- Generates a checksum for a region of pixels

Misc Functions

• Return <expressions> -- Returns a result from a Function.
• Throw( <expression> ) -- Throw an exception.
• Die( <expression> ) -- Gives an error and terminates the program.
• Eval( <expression>, <flag> ) -- Evaluate a string as Sputnik code.
• GC( <flag> ) -- Use the garbage collector.
• Require( <file>, <flag> ) -- Add all functions etc from a file for use.
• Include( <file>, <flag> ) -- Add all functions etc from a file for use and execute all expressions.
• Opt( <option>, <value> ) -- Changes the operation of various Sputnik functions/parameters

User Defined Functions

These functions are created using Sputnik and are not part of the Sputnik core language.