Accessing Individual Spectra from a Lua program

When you write a script for iNMR, it's like you are writing directly into the console. You don't specify the document (window) you want to operate onto and in normal cases this is fine, because the foremost window is implicitly assumed as the target of your commands. If you want something moderately more powerful, you can activate the option “For all documents”. In this case each command is executed for each document before the next statement is parsed. Unfortunately, some commands ignore this option. What is worse, if you create your own commands, they are also unaffected (but each command you invoke will have, internally, an implicit loop). A programmer needs, instead, the freedom to decide how long a loop should be.

All you can do, with iNMR scripting, is to switch to the next window, with the command: next_window(). This becomes a powerful building block indeed, when combined with the commands “open()” and “pathtofile()”. The latter returns the unix path to the original file that contains the data points. Under normal circumstances, each window points to a different file, and we are going to exploit this unicity.

to loop over all documents

first = pathtofile()
repeat
	your_command_here()	-- this is the loop core
	other_statements()	-- substitute these lines
	....				
	next_window()		-- switch
until pathtofile() == first	-- cycle is complete

to reach the document corresponding to a given path


function safe_switch( path )
	open( path )
	for i = 1,100 do
		next_window()
		if pathtofile() == path then
			break
		end
	end
end

function freezing_switch( path )
-- path must point to the file “fid” or “ser” (containing the data points)
-- otherwise the following is an endless loop
	open( path )
	repeat
		next_window()
	until pathtofile() == path
end

to generate a list of open documents


List = {}
L[1] = pathtofile()
NumberOfDocuments = 100
for i = 2,NumberOfDocuments do
	next_window()		-- switch
	L[i] = pathtofile()
	if L[i] == L[1] then
		L[i] = nil
		NumberOfDocuments = i - 1
		break
	end
end

 
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