EditFileDefinedPWLDialog Function

Opens the dialog box shown below allowing the entry of X-Y pairs intended for the definition of file defined piece-wise linear sources.

Arguments

Number Type Compulsory Default Description
1 string array Yes file content
2 string No Source options
3 string No Options

Argument 1

File content used to initialise table represented as a string array. The above example would be displayed after a call to: 

Show EditFileDefinedPWLDialog(['***' , '*** default_file.txt' , '***' , 'START_DATA' , '0 0' ,  '10u 0' ,  '20u 1' ] , [ '0' , '0' , '0' , " , 'Disk' ] )

Argument 2

Up to seven element string array to define source parameters:
Index Description
0 Source delay parameter
1 Checkbox state for Periodic source checkbox.
2 Checkbox state for Active only during transient after POP? checkbox.
3 Filename.
4 File location used to initialize the radio selection. 'Disk' or 'F11'.
5 v9.20+ Backward compatibility flag. 1 - removes ability to use parameterization
6 Reference designator for souce, used in error messages.
7 Pipe (|) delimited list of F11 filenames used to populate the F11 window combobox.

Argument 3

Up to six element string array to define box labels:
Index Description
0 Box caption. Default: 'Edit File Defined PWL Source'
1 Label for X-Values column. Default: 'Time'
2 Label for Y-Values column. Default: 'Value'
3 Help context id. Default: '-1' (no help button shown)
4 Minimum number of segments. Default = '2'
5 Maximum number of segments. Default = '100001'

Returns

Return type: string array

The function returns the edited file as a string array. The first element of the return contains the source parameters, concatenated in a semi-colon delimited list of 5 elements:
Index Description
0 Source delay parameter
1 Checkbox state for Periodic source checkbox.
2 Checkbox state for Active only during transient after POP? checkbox.
3 Filename.
4 File location radio button state. 'Disk' or 'F11'.
5 Checkbox stat for Backward compatible checkbox.

The file contents start at the second element (index=1). You can slice the file contents out of the return array with the Range function: 

Let fileContents = Range( return , 1 )

String arrays can be written to file with the Show command. 

Show /plain /file points.txt fileContents

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