Help: script only works when in debug mode

Ian McKnight igmcknight at gmail.com
Sun Apr 9 15:15:54 EDT 2006


On 09/04/06, Thomas McGrath III <3mcgrath at adelphia.net> wrote:
>
> Ian,
>
>
> I was just about to respond when I saw you answered your own post.
> The without waiting is the culprit. The computer doesn't wait to move
> one while the other is moving to it's new location and as such is
> getting the wrong coordinates to figure out what the relative is. I'm
> surprised that it didn't also get the naming wrong as well.
>
> Do you even need the in 1 tick part at all?
>
> Happy scripting,
>
> Tom



Hi Tom

Thanks for your reply and explanation.
I ran the script with the line

 move the selectedobject relative 18,-32

and it was so slow! Putting in

move the selectedobject relative 18,-32 in 1 millisecond (or  in 1 tick)

meant it was  virtually instant.


Thanks again

Ian



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