Modified Script Editor

[J. Landman Gay]

Ray Horsley wrote:
> Here's a good head scratcher.  The recent thread about upgrading to 
> 2.7.4 was incentive for me to finally do so.  Everything went smoothly 
> and I made various personal changes I prefer such as adding the keyboard 
> shortcut command-E to the Script Editor so I can easily open the 
> Variable Watcher during debugging.  Then when I used it, only in certain 
> scripts, I got the error:
> 
> Keys: Parameter is not a variable
> 
> It appears the offending line in my script was:
> 
>       set the decorations of stack "•Standards•" to title
> 
> If I make "title" a literal, as in:
> 
>       set the decorations of stack "•Standards•" to "title"
> 
> I have no more problems, for the moment.
> 
> Anybody got any ideas?

I get this same error all the time, and Ken finally cleared it up for me 
the other day. In your example, "title" is a reserved word in 
Revolution, and without the quotes it is seen by the debugger as an 
invalid variable name. Decorations are supposed to be in quotes anyway; 
not putting them in quotes is handled in a forgiving fashion by the 
engine in some cases but not in all.

In my case, I was using a variable called tExt (for storing the 
extension of a file name) and the engine saw it as the word "text" -- 
also a reserved word and therefore not a variable.

Gotta watch those.

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