Managing scripts "*.scm" (solved for the case, open for parser)

dinasset · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2013 2:34 pm **(#1)**

Hi everybody!
I don't know whether between the many gurus around here, there is somebody who has to deal with the module (I guess it's "script-fu.exe") which analyses and load the various scripts ".scm", I hope yes.
I'd like to point out what happens (at least to me...) when one of the added scripts has something unacceptable: if I refresh the scripts ALL THE SCRIPTS ARE LISTED ARE BEING IN ERROR!!! (typical message for each script: unbound variable: -blanks-) which is obviously not true.
If I just added one script, it's simple to remove the new one, then try to understand where the error is (if I can...), but if I added a set of them, I need to remove them all, then add one at a time until errors come out.
This is time consuming...
Is there a good reason for such a behaviour? Why is it not possible to get ONLY the script (or scripts) in error in the list?
Many thanks...

paynekj · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2013 2:53 pm **(#2)**

Do you have an example of a script that causes this behaviour?

I've never seen that happen - a script with an error is always reported as an individual script for me.

The error message unbound variable: -blanks- suggests that you have script files with non-ASCII characters in them - are you opening and re-saving them using anything?

Kevin

dinasset · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2013 3:03 pm **(#3)**

Hi Kevin.
I downloaded a set of scripts from Saul Goode.
One of them seems to be - for a reason I do not understand - unacceptable:
sg-layer-extend
I attach the downloaded script (I only changed the menu)

paynekj · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2013 3:08 pm **(#4)**

What did you edit it with? as it has a lot of binary data (i.e. non ASCII) at the end of the file, that also includes the word Arial.

So my suspicion is that you've edited it with a word processor (Word, Wordpad, Open Office etc) rather than a text editor (Notepad, TextPad, Emacs, vi etc)

Kevin

Odinbc · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2013 3:10 pm **(#5)**

dinasset wrote:

This is time consuming...
Is there a good reason for such a behaviour? Why is it not possible to get ONLY the script (or scripts) in error in the list?
Many thanks...

Can you post your Error Console log output.
Windows → Dockable Dialogs → Error Console

dinasset · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2013 3:13 pm **(#6)**

OK, you are right, I didn't see. I'll try to clean and retry.
But my basic question remains: while with this wrong file all others become in error?

dinasset · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2013 3:15 pm **(#7)**

to Odinbc:
I will reintroduce the script in error to get the list, just a minute

paynekj · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2013 3:19 pm **(#8)**

dinasset wrote:

OK, you are right, I didn't see. I'll try to clean and retry.
But my basic question remains: while with this wrong file all others become in error?

Probably because all scripts are loaded into a common name-space (why I created the duplicate script checker) and the non-ascii data is confusing the file parser into doing odd things.

dinasset · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2013 3:28 pm **(#9)**

OK paynekj, I understand, even if (from a viewpoint of a programmer of a parser) I would reset all error status when a new file is loaded and examined.
Maybe the parser can be enhanced in that sense.

dinasset · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2013 3:31 pm **(#10)**

Final answer to Kevin.
Removed the wrong appendix and no more problems.
Thanks a lot for your support:
(Still hope the parser would have to be improved.....)