This is going to come across as incredibly noobish, I know, but how does one access/bring-up/invoke/whatever this newly enhanced script editor introduced in v.11?
I can't find any of the dialog boxes shown in the help file--it's like it referring to some program that I don't have. I've scrutinized every single page in the help that related to scripting, and no where does it state how to actually access those dialog boxes. (Don't ask which--ALL apply.)
The only script editor I can bring up is the same old one that I always have been able to for many versions now: the one in the Rename Tool. And it just brings up same old blank stub code that it always had--nothing like what I see in the help file and discussed here in the forums.
Maybe it's a function of my restoring my previous settings (from v.10) as I had thing moderately customized, but can't any menu or toolbar relating to scripting.
It is difficult to know exactly which dialog(s) you mean, or which manual pages could do with clarification, unless you tell us some of them. e.g. Links to manual pages that show the thing you are trying to find will help us here.
But the main script editors you might use, which are part of Opus, include:
The normal button/command editor (and similar things, like the file type event editor). If a button's Function type is set to Script Function, you can type script code into the normal editor.
The Opus CLI window lets you test small scripts without having to edit buttons. (Usually used to prototype things, before moving them into a button or Script Add-In.) Make a button that runs CLI SCRIPTMODE if you want to access that.
The Preferences / Toolbars / Scripts page lets you view and configure Script Add-Ins, and has a button for editing them (unless they are packed into .osp archives, which need to be unpacked before they can be edited). The Edit button there will open a text editor (e.g. Notepad, TextPad, etc.) based on your filetype settings.
It is difficult to know exactly which dialog(s) you mean, or which manual pages could do with clarification, unless you tell us some of them. e.g. Links to manual pages that show the thing you are trying to find will help us here.[/quote]
Yeah, probably right. If one traverses the Scripting node proper, there actually aren't any dialog boxes being displayed anywhere making my "all apply" equivalent to "none apply," eh? Sorry. I was using the index search to hunt for scripting stuff, and the "Create New Script" dialog box (which was one I had in mind), and does show up there. (And for what it's worth, my eyes just did not register that little, lone File menu in the preferences dialog boxes. Go figure.)
Anyway, okay, thanks for explaining it all! I have enough enough to stumble about now, I think.
e.g. Links to manual pages that show the thing you are trying to find will help us here.
Sorry. I was using the index search to hunt for scripting stuff, and the "Create New Script" dialog box (which was one I had in mind), and does show up there. (And for what it's worth, my eyes just did not register that little, lone