Modified Script Editor

[Ray Horsley]

Thanks for the insight, Jackie.  I'm usually pretty good about  
avoiding the use of reserved words.  This was a case where I thought  
the engine actually needed to see the reserved word without the  
quotes.  After all, that's how it worked with previous versions of  
the engine.  Anyway, live and learn.

Thanks,

Ray Horsley
Developer, LinkIt! Software


On Oct 3, 2006, at 5:46 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> 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.
>
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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