DCAL Tutorial

Here is the listing of the current lessons available. Remember to sign up for our DDN Forum to aid you in working through the lessons. On the forum you can ask questions and (hopefully) get answers to all your questions.

Lesson 1 - The Basics

• Introduction
• What is DCAL?
• How do DataCAD and DCAL work together?
• Setting up your system for working with DCAL
• Testing your setup

Lesson 2 - Building on the Basics

• Program syntax
• Macro Header
• Comments and White Space
• Identifiers
• Keywords
• Program Statements
• Summary

Lesson 3 - Constants, Types and Variables

• Constants
• Types
• Variables

Lesson 4 - Program Flow Control

• Flow Control
• IF statements
• For statements
• While statements
• Repeat statements

Lesson 5 - Procedures and Functions

• Sample Macro
• Summary

Lesson 6 - Putting it All Together

• Writing the Interface
• Making it Work

Appendix - Working with DCAL

• The Menu System
• Creating an Entity