button stops working

[J. Landman Gay]

On 6/2/05 2:36 PM, Jon wrote:

 > I Applied/Saved every script I could
 > find.  Some of them did not "take": after I saved them, the Apply
 > buttons would go back to black again, spontaneously, as if I had never
 > done the Saves.

This is probably because there were compile errors and the script 
couldn't be applied or saved. Check for an error dialog window when that 
happens, which will tell you what the problem is. If you have many 
script windows open, you may have missed it. The error initially is 
displayed on top of everything else, but it is possible to click on 
another window while it is open and it will get pushed into the background.

 > Eventually I just killed every script editor.  Then it REALLY hit the
 > fan.

Yeah. Most of the buttons I looked at had at least one compile error. 
So, not surprising.

 > There were LOTS of "do you want to save changes or not" messages,
 > over and over again, as if there were lots of hidden instances of
 > editors and lots of hidden instances of unsaved script text.

Probably that was indeed the case. If you try to apply a script 
containing an error, it won't compile and it won't save. Every time you 
try to close the editor, you'll get the same dialog again until the 
script is fixed. It was probably asking you about the same script 
repeatedly.

 >  I got out
 > of Rev and came back in.  Some of the bottons still don't work.
 >
 > Rev seems to be pretty buggy to me. Painfully so for a commercial 
product.

So far, it sounds like it is doing what it is supposed to. If you have a 
script you cannot fix at the moment, just comment out the handlers 
(select the lines and use the "Comment" feature in the Script menu.) 
That will allow you to save the script and close the editor. You can go 
back later, uncomment the script, and fix it when you have it figured out.


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