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[Alex Tweedly]

Jon wrote:

> I know how to save/apply a script.  The fact is that, at least on my 
> system, if I just do a <ctrl>-S or a Files/Save (script and stack), 
> error messages do NOT appear and the Apply button becomes gray, even 
> if there are errors.  If I kill the script editor, at least I get to 
> see the error messages.
>
Jon - I think that is a large part of why you're seeing this problem so 
often.

ctrl-S does a "Save stack"
It does NOT Apply any outstanding edits that you may have - and 
therefore does not check for script errors.

IMHO that's a stupid thing for it to do - but that's what it does.  And 
once you've done that "save stack", you have erroneous scripts saved in 
the stack file, waiting to bite you later.

Usual thing to do is either
  click Apply  (if you are a mouse user)
  type the "enter" key (which may be a Fn combination, or a keypad 
enter) to apply without closing editor window
  save/apply script   - on Windows, that's   ctrl-return    to close 
script editor window and apply

I think there are still other problems - but remembering that ctrl-S 
doesn't, in Rev, do what any Windows user would expect it to do will 
avoid 95% of what you're seeing.

P.S.  it only took me about two weeks to stop myself from hitting ctrl-S 
frequently :-) :-)

> I'm happy that the system works better on your system <grin>
>
> Jon
>
>
> J. Landman Gay wrote:
>
>> On 6/4/05 1:12 PM, Jon wrote:
>>
>>> I've given up on saving scripts, and now only delete/kill the script 
>>> editors.  That way I'm SURE to see the error messages.  Far too 
>>> often I have "saved" a script and the save did not take, with no 
>>> error window visible.
>>
>>
>>
>> I have never seen this, ever.
>>
>> To save/apply a script, either click the button at the bottom of the 
>> editor, or hit the Enter key on the keyboard while your cursor is 
>> somewhere in the script itself. To close the script editor window, 
>> hit the Enter key a second time. You should get any relevant error 
>> messages after the first "apply" (Enter key) is done.
>>
>> If you mean you are clicking the close box on the editor window 
>> itself, you can do that, and you should get any compile error 
>> messages that way too. It is more standard to use either the Apply 
>> button or the Enter key though (and quicker.)
>>
>> Note that there are two kinds of errors in scripts. There are compile 
>> errors, which the IDE will warn you about when you try to apply a 
>> script, and there are also runtime errors, which will not be evident 
>> until the script actually executes. Runtime errors can't be caught 
>> during the compile process and you won't see warnings about those 
>> until they actually happen.
>>
>>
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