Explanation of Error code

[J. Landman Gay]

On 9/6/10 5:36 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
> Jacque-
>
> Monday, September 6, 2010, 2:26:42 PM, you wrote:
>
>> In the dictionary, look up "errorDialog" where there is a good
>> explanation of what the numbers mean and how to use them. Briefly, the
>
> Unfortunately the information in the docs about the errorDialog
> message are a form of wishful thinking. That is, most of the
> information is true most of the time, some of it may have been true in
> times past but is not longer, and some of it may just be the way Scott
> Raney wanted things to be. For instance, it is emphatically not true
> that "the errorDialog message is only sent while Script Debug mode is
> turned off."
>
> There are also other error messages such as compile-time errors that
> are not in the cErrorsList of card 1, but rather in the cScriptErrors
> of said card; and "warnings", although I've never come across one of
> those: I assume the compiler could possibly generate those if a
> compile switch were enabled, but that's just guesswork on my part.
>
> It's also unfortunately the case that the engine will sometimes
> generate errorDialog messages with an empty executionError parameter
> (BZ# 7741), and the only thing to do in that case is just pretend it
> didn't happen.
>

Good to know, thanks. At least the numbers still mean what I thought. 
Might be worth pasting the above into a dictionary user note.

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