AppleScript won't compile (?)

Marian Petrides mpetrides at earthlink.net
Fri Aug 20 01:32:10 EDT 2004


That's odd because when I try to compile this script in AppleScript 
editor it gives me a compile error at exactly the same spot:  Syntax 
error: expected comma but found identifier  with the highlighted word 
(identifier) being chapter.
M

On Aug 19, 2004, at 11:52 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Sarah Reichelt wrote:
>
>> This is very odd. I have always recommended that AppleScripts only be 
>> transferred to Rev after they have been tested in the AppleScript 
>> editor, and have never had a script that worked in one & not the 
>> othere. The only idea I had was the line continuations. Does it work 
>> if you make all the wrapped lines into single lines?
>
> Thanks for looking into it.  I found the culprit: it was the "choose 
> from list" AppleScript command.  That's okay, because I don't really 
> want to display a list of chapter info but merely return it to Rev, so 
> not having that available doesn't bother me.
>
> Still curious as to why that doesn't work from Rev, though.



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