Methods
In this chapter we present an introduction to different types of methods that are available. A detailed reference guide to the methods is provided in the Appendices; please refer to that when you write a decoder. The Method Reference Appendix gives a listing of every method, its parameters and a description, often with examples, of how to use the method and what it does. All the methods referenced in this section are located in the DecoderScript Sample Methods.mth file in the My Methods\Source directory of the installed product. Many of these methods are actual methods used by the protocol analyzer, so we have altered the method names by inserting underscores before and after the names to ensure that if you compile them, they will not collide with existing methods.
In what follows we discuss each method type and list the contexts in which methods of the type may be used.