Script editor - non-existent changes.

[Jon]

I agree that this behavior is annoying.  It is one of the reasons I 
don't really trust the editor.  Neat that you were able to locate the 
reason for the bizarre behavior...

:)

Jon



Alex Tweedly wrote:

>
> One of the things that has annoyed me, on and off, about the script 
> editor is that it will ask me
>  "Do you want to apply the changes .....   [Apply]   [ Cancel]  [Don't 
> Apply]"
>
> even when I didn't think I had made any changes. Today, it got 
> annoying enough for me to investigate (rather than just curse under my 
> breath and carry on with what I was trying to do).
>
> The revScriptEditor script contains
>
>>   if pTheKey is among the items of "65361,65362,65363,65364,65360" then
>>     -- navigation key, arrow, home, end, change selection
>>     selectionChanged
>>     pass rawKeyUp
>>   end if
>
>
> Any other key will set the "modified" flag, and force the question to 
> be asked when the script editor is closed.
>
> So it looks to me as though:
> 1. regardless of what the comment says, the "home" key is in the list, 
> so it doesn't set the flag; the "end" key isn't, so it does set the flag
> 2. Even "unimportant" keys will set the flag (e.g. Ctl, Alt, etc.)
>
> Am I missing something ?  Can ctl or alt affect the content of the 
> script ?
> is there anything different between home and end keys that would 
> require this to be different ?
>
> I can (probably will) just change it and see what happens - but there 
> are too many key combinations to trust any results from simple 
> testing, so if anyone has answers to these questions it might save me 
> some time.
>
> Thanks,
>