Introduction

This chapter contains a general introduction to the structure of the STx programming and execution environment.

Application Environment

The application environment contains all the data structures and functionallities which are available to the whole application.

Loaded Sourcefiles

All scripts, macros, classes and spu's must be loaded from the sourcefile before they can be executed or instantiated. All loaded sources are available to the whole application. Shell commands: LOAD sourcefiles UNLOAD sourcefiles LIST loaded sourcefiles and code objects

Active Shells

All running shells are registered in the application envrionment.

Global Variables

The application environment contains a global variable space, which can be accessed from the whole application. All name prefix character @ is used to address the global variable space.