topic Re: addin_home path variable in Discussions

addin_home path variable

vince_faller — Thu, 25 May 2017 22:08:53 GMT

It seems on all of my versions of JMP I can't actually get to my path variable addin_home.

get path variable("addin_home");
//""
get path variable( "ADDIN_HOME(’com.some.real.addin’)" );
//""
convert file path("$Addin_home");

//Cannot expand path expression: $Addin_home
//"/$Addin_home"

but in plenty of my addins the location says $Addin_Home and they work. Can I just not see it from scripting for some reason?

Re: addin_home path variable

Eric_Hill — Fri, 26 May 2017 14:13:31 GMT

Lose the single quotes around the add-in ID and it seems to work:

y = Get Path Variable("ADDIN_HOME(com.jmp.eric.booyah)");

/*:
"/C:/Users/sasewh/AppData/Roaming/SAS/JMP/Addins/com.jmp.eric.booyah/"

HTH,

Eric

Re: addin_home path variable

vince_faller — Fri, 26 May 2017 14:19:08 GMT

Also just realized that if you type the single quotes it works.

So if support sees this. I copied the syntax from here:

http://www.jmp.com/support/help/13/Path_Variables.shtml

and they use the wrong quotes. Apparently there are slightly different single quotes that JSL doesn't like.

Re: addin_home path variable

Eric_Hill — Fri, 26 May 2017 14:22:45 GMT

Ahh, it's those goofy word-processing fancy single quotes messing up life for programmers yet again ;-).

Eric