Zugg Software :: View topic - Script parameter list disappears after updating item

Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:56 am

Repeatedly, after updating an alias or function that have local variables declared as parameters (in lieu of %1,...,%N), the list is removed on update. It has to be re-inserted and then the item must be saved again. Unfortunately, this doesn't happen always so there is no way to predict the behavior. However, it has happened enough times now and has become annoying enough, to warrant a post.

Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 3:37 pm

There is no way to give us a small example of how to reproduce this?

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 6:55 pm

Well, the problem is that one can't tell that it has happened until after one attempts to run the script. When one saves the setting, the parameter list is in its place. One becomes aware of the problem when the message saying that $<varname> is missing when trying to execute. I will keep trying to capture the problem. The one thing that occurs to me is that it usually happens after one saves the setting with syntax errors. Then, after going back to the setting and fixing the errors, the save will lose the parameter list. This is not a 100% thing, but I have noticed a correlation.

Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:01 pm

You'll need to give us the script that you are using for this. Keep in mind that if you enter the parameter list in the editor, and then use an #ALIAS command to "redefine" an alias, then it will clear the parameter list.

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:07 am

I never use the #ALIAS command. There is no particular setting with a parameter list which is affected. It can be any of the ones that I update. As I said, there is a correlation between saving an alias (or function) setting with a syntax error and later when the error is fixed and the setting is saved again, the list will disappear. I can't prove that there is a direct connection, though. The setting must be saved for this to happen, merely looking at it doesn't affect it.

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:11 am

I tried creating a syntax error in an alias with a parameter list and could not get it to fail.

I'm afraid that until you are able to come up with a specific procedure for reproducing this (or someone else is able to), then there isn't much I can do about it. I can't fix it if I can't reproduce it, sorry.