Re: OK Brian - weather conversion to script Question

Paul wrote:
> Brian Wolven wrote:
>> Hale, Paul wrote:
>>> Hey Brian and rest of y'all. I changed all the *Alias's over to scripts,
>>> but it is not working. I have always said I suck at scripting, it's like
>>> reading goddamn latin to me. Anyways, whenever I use my script that I
>>> converted I get errors saying:
>>>  
>>> Weather INI file %1 not found!
>>>  
>>> or  the given Search String
>>> [              ]*([%%][11]).*
>>> wasn't found in the file
>>> ...\volatile
>>> Replace canceled!
>>>  
>>> yadda yadda yadda... you get the idea.
>>>  
>>> Of course this is something to do with the location and the syntax
>>> pointing to my xml file.
>>>  
>>> Enlightened me Sensei
>>
>> Usually when you have problems with scripts it's because they are not 
>> doing what you think they are doing.  So... you need to stick some 
>> diagnostics in there (!alert or sumpin') to see what the script is 
>> really doing. It's hard to tell you much more without seeing the 
>> scripts themselves.
> 
> The scripts are ultra simple. Everywhere you had an *Alias line, I broke 
> it down into a multiline script.
> 
> *Alias !SaveSetting !execute [!SetEvar %1 %2][!ReloadTEM][!xTextSaveEvar 
> @$SettingsFile$@ @%1@ @%2@][!UnloadTEM]
> 
> became
> 
> *Script bang !savesetting
>     *scriptexec !SetEvar %1 %2
>     *sciptexec !ReloadTEM
>     *sciptexec !xTextSaveEvar @$SettingsFile$@ @%1@ @%2@
>     *sciptexec !UnloadTEM
> *script ~bang
> 
> 
> This is the part where everyone has a good chuckle and tells me you 
> can't do this.

Hehe - you can't do that. =P

The "%1" and "%2" are the way that the arguments to the alias module are 
tokenized. Mzscript syntax is different (%{\1}, %{\2}, at least for certain 
versions), so for starters you'd need to change all of those. Something like 
this *might* work:

*Script bang !savesetting
     *scriptexec !SetEvar %{\1} %{\2}
     *sciptexec !ReloadTEM
     *sciptexec !xTextSaveEvar @$SettingsFile$@ @%{\1}@ @%{\2}@
     *sciptexec !UnloadTEM
*script ~bang

Look at all the other translated aliases: lather, rinse, repeat. YMMV.


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