RE: Strange Script editor behaviour
RE: Strange Script editor behaviour
- Subject: RE: Strange Script editor behaviour
- From: "Francois Houle" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:13:34 -0500
- Thread-topic: Strange Script editor behaviour
Guess I got confused with the many "" & variable & "" ..> just makes for
too many quote signs... if only AS would just say... There is a "
missing ! it would make the error much easier to understand !
Thanks !
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: applescript-users-bounces+francois.houle=email@hidden
[mailto:applescript-users-bounces+francois.houle=email@hidden.c
om] On Behalf Of Bill Briggs
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 2:26 PM
To: AppleScript User's List
Subject: Re: Strange Script editor behaviour
At 1:59 PM -0500 3/10/05, Francois Houle wrote:
>Content-class: urn:content-classes:message
>Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
> boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C525A3.38B17FF2"
>
>Some times I just don't get how the Editor works...
>
>I have a perfectly workable script in scpt format... I then add
>something to it (it may be to add a new string, add a tell, a try or an
>if, or anything actually) and suddenly I can't compile anymore...
>It just keeps on finding issues with "" items after it (always states
>"Expected end of line but found identifier").... and if I replace all
>the " with | so that the editor kind of ignores them (and byt the way
>those lines did compile properly before adding a new element to the
>script) it goes till the end of the script and the staes that it
>expected to find "" but found the end of the script...
>Basically, it seems to suddenly no understand quotes properly or shell
>commands, and it seems to happen especially when I add lines to set a
>new variable or a new tell section in the script.
>Note: if I take those "new" aprts in a separate script window, they
>work flawlesly... If I remove the new parts of the script, then
>suddenly the script can compile again... And this happnes in quite a
>few scripts of mine.
>Any one have any idea on this ?
When this happens to me it's always because I've not closed a quote
somewhere.
- web
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Applescript-users mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
40mcgill.ca
This email sent to email@hidden
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Applescript-users mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
This email sent to email@hidden