'TRANSPOSES A MAXENT OUTPUT PARAMETER FILE TO A COLUMN-BASED TXT FOR EXCEL COMPATIBILITY 'LOADING SCRIPTS ' 1. Double-click on an empty area on the bar containing all buttons, The "Customize" dialog appears ' 2. In the "Type" pull-down, select "View" ' 3. In the "Category" pull-down, select "Buttons", The display right below the pull down changes to show an array of buttons ' 4. Slide the scrollbar (below the button display) to the right and select the last button by clicking on it, Now click on "New" ' 5. A new blank button appears. Double-click on the blank area to the right of the entry "Click" (just below the button display) ' 6. The "Script Manager" Dialog appears, Click on "New", Enter any name in the input box that appears (prefix it with "Z_" so that it goes in the last) ' 7. A new blank script document (With the name just specified) appears. Delete whatever is on it... ' 8. Either copy-paste this ENTIRE script on the document, or, click on the button with the open-folder icon (tooltip reads "Load text file") and navigate to this file ' 9. Either done, click on the button with the tick-mark icon ("compile"). If spatial analyst is not loaded, there will be some error message, Load it ' 10. After the script is compiled (the tick-mark buton should be grayed out), close the script window and return to the view ' 11. Click on the new button to run the script TheFile=FileDialog.Show("*.csv", "Maxent Output csv files", "Select Maxent Output") NewFile=(TheFile.AsString.Left(TheFile.AsString.Count-3)+"txt").AsFileName aLF=LineFile.Make(TheFile, #FILE_PERM_READ) tLF=LineFile.MAKE(NewFile, #FILE_PERM_WRITE) aLF.SetPos(0) list1=aLF.ReadELT.AsTokens(",") aLF.SetPos(1) list2=aLF.ReadELT.AsTokens(",") for each l in 1..(list1.count) ctr=l-1 tLF.WriteELT(list1.Get(ctr)+","+list2.Get(ctr)) end