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Miniwindow error (possibly bigger issue)
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| Posted by
| Essidus
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| Mon 18 Aug 2008 08:07 PM (UTC) |
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| So far, every attempt I've made at using the miniwindows has come back with this error:
Script error
World: main
Execution of line 1 column 82
Immediate execution
Cannot use parentheses when calling a Sub
Line in error:
world.WindowCreate("test", 0, 0, 300, 300, 12, 0, world.ColourNameToRGB("white"))
It sounds like a deeper issue than the mini window scripting, but I wanted to make sure before I start digging deeper. Currently, I'm coding in VBScript | | Top |
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| Posted by
| David Haley
USA (3,881 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #1 on Mon 18 Aug 2008 08:14 PM (UTC) |
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| | The error is pretty much what it says: you're not supposed to use parentheses when you call a sub in VBScript. :-) |
David Haley aka Ksilyan
Head Programmer,
Legends of the Darkstone
http://david.the-haleys.org | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Essidus
(16 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #2 on Mon 18 Aug 2008 08:32 PM (UTC) |
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| | *groan* I'm clearly braindead. Sorry for even bothering you guys with this | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,140 posts) Bio
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| Reply #3 on Mon 18 Aug 2008 09:00 PM (UTC) Amended on Mon 18 Aug 2008 09:02 PM (UTC) by Nick Gammon
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| Just to make it clear what we mean, it should read:
WindowCreate "test", 0, 0, 300, 300, 12, 0, world.ColourNameToRGB("white")
VBscript has this strange syntactical requirement that you must have brackets if you are calling a function (which returns a value) and must not, if you don't.
However it really depends on whether you want the result. WindowCreate returns a status code, so all you really need to do is request it:
status = WindowCreate("test", 0, 0, 300, 300, 12, 0, world.ColourNameToRGB("white"))
If status <> 0 Then
Note "Problem creating window"
EndIf
If I may suggest, Lua is the recommended language these days, is about the same difficulty to learn as VBscript (not much) and doesn' t have this syntactic problem. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Scarn
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| Reply #4 on Mon 25 Aug 2008 09:58 AM (UTC) |
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| status = WindowCreate("test", 0, 0, 300, 300, 12, 0, world.ColourNameToRGB("white"))
If status <> 0 Then
Note "Problem creating window"
EndIf
Where would that be pasted? In a trigger or in a script file? | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,140 posts) Bio
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| Reply #5 on Mon 25 Aug 2008 10:01 PM (UTC) |
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| | Put it wherever you want to create the window. A script file or plugin would be the normal place. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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