Minor script editor annoyance

[Alex Rice]

On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 01:00  PM, Edwin Gore wrote:

> Wondering if anybody else ever sees this...
>
> Occasionally when I edit a script and click "Apply" I get an script 
> compile error message saying that a comma was expected at some 
> seemingly random point in the script. going back to the script, 
> entering a space (anywhere) and deleting it to reactivate the "Apply" 
> button, and clicking "Apply" causes the script to comile without any 
> problem.
>
> It's a minor thing, and easy to work around, since it just takes a 
> moment to reapply the script, but it's weird.

I've seen things like this occasionally.

Maybe the same as what you are seeing, not sure: I think that somehow 
metacharacters are being entered into the script editor (whether by 
clumsy fingers, or by copy-paste) and the compiler can't deal with 
them. However the script editor cannot display them either. So removing 
some apparent whitespace fixes it. Just a guess!

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
http://ARCplanning.com