Ox Console 7.0

Ox Console is the command-line version of Ox that lacks the interaction with OxMetrics (so it can't show graphs, and can't run the GUI versions of Ox Packages). It can be run from a command-prompt (console/terminal/MS-DOS) window or from inside an OX editor.

v7.0 [Nov 26, 2013]
syntax
- foreach loops
- Lambda functions (anonymous functions)
Input handling
- Open a zip file for reading. The following file functions can handle the opened zip file: fread, fscan, feof, fsize.
- Database class handles choice variables
- replace: replace text in string
- loadsheet: loads an entire sheet from xlsx file (can be any sheet, not just the first)
- Improved handling of files >2GB
Efficiency
- Improved handling of function arguments that are not labelled as const.
- Faster virtual function calls
- Lower overhead of sub matrix assignment
- Compilation of canonical for and foreach loops
Parallel programming
- Parallel loops
- Parallel simulation using Simulator class
Developer
- Renamed Appendices to Developer's manual. Created C# and Java examples.
- Java version of RanApp (usung NetBeans)