Ditto! Why put in a second and third step when one step will do? I can
understand being familiar with a particular editor, and not wanting to learn
another editor's commands, but it is indeed less headaches to check out the
Jscript.exe editor for writing your scripts.
Keep in mind that you can create scripts for Script Manager itself, giving
it all the keystrokes you're familiar with in your comfortable editor, and
since it isn't designed to write a novel with, the commands are easily
remembered.
One thing I did was to come up with a means of not having to type in all the
header info for each new script file I created; it got tedious as all getout
after the first few files!
Now, when I create a new script file, the Control+H inputs all the header
info, including the current date and time!
script NewFileHeaderInfo()
{Control+Home} ;make sure I'm at the top.
TypeString(";JFW Script file for\n")
TypeString(";Last modified: "+ SysGetDate()) ;print date.
TypeString("--"+SysGetTime()) ;print time.
TypeString("\n;By Festus Dufus\n\n")
TypeString(";\n")
TypeString("include \"hjconst.jsh\"\n")
TypeString("include \"hjglobal.jsh\"\n")
TypeString(";\n")
{Control+Home} ;go back to top line and
{End} ;move to end to type in application's name!
EndScript
Now, whenever I hit the Control+H, it puts the following info at the top of
this newly-created script file:
;JFW Script file for
;Last modified: Sunday, May 23, 1999--17:30
;By Festus Dufus
;
include "hjconst.jsh\"
include "hjglobal.jsh"
;
Lots of things like that to do in just the Jscript editor to make learning
it easier, and since in the end you're going to have to load your script
into the Script editor to compile it, no use in re-inventing the wheel!
Thanks,
Dennis Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Visit the Blind Programming site at http://www.mindspring.com/~brown99/
----- Original Message -----
From: BOB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 23, 1999 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: writing scripts with microsoft word?
> Good questions, Barry.
> The script file (any file that ends in .jss) is nothing but a text file
> (just like other files the end in .txt).
> The only difference is that the script manager knows what to do with them.
> Other programs, like notepad or wordpad, or even microsoft word have no
idea
> what a .jss file is.
> That's one reason why it is best to use the script manager. It is happy
> with .jss files.
>
> Eventually, whatever you use to write your script in, you are going to
have
> to compile it. The process of "compiling" something means to take it from
> letters and numbers (the things that mere humans use to write scripts in)
> and convert it into machine code (things that the God machines can
> understand).
> The only way I know of to translate a script you have written in words
> consisting of letters and numbers, to machine code, consisting of ones and
> zeros, is with the script manager.
>
> So, take my word for it, it's best to use the script manager to write your
> scripts in.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Bob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: barry m carver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sunday, May 23, 1999 11:06 AM
> Subject: writing scripts with microsoft word?
>
>
> >Hello bob & others who replied to my question.
> >
> >bob, let me see if I can get this right. Are you telling me that JFW's
> >script manager uses its own processor with its own font? I copied a
> >script from juno into Microsoft Word, then copied from word into the
> >script manager. After I did all of this, did the JfW script manager
> >again change the fonts to its liking?
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