There's also the "recompile all scripts" menu option.
At 10:34 PM 7/28/01 +0200, Florian Bogeschdorfer wrote:
>Sometimes I have similar problems even with not linked scripts. They
>just don't recompile. Quitting and reloading is the only possibilty.
>
>Florian
>
>Slava Paperno wrote:
> >
> > Since you guys are talking about .ls files ("File IO"), has anyone noticed
> > that the externally linked scripts sometimes require a kisk in the ass
> > before they're updated properly? My impression is that D8 actually stores a
> > copy of a linked script internally, and when you edit the script, and save
> > it to disk, sometimes it is the earlier version that gets executed--at
> > least until you resave the dir file under a different name, or reopen it.
> >
> > Many times I actually had to quit D8 before my changes in the externally
> > linked script took effect. (Even though I made these changes from D's own
> > script editor--I don't use external script editors.)
> >
> > At one point I actually deleted the script from the movie, saved the movie
> > (under the same name), and the handlers still ran! It was only when I
> > closed D8, restarted it, and reopened the movie, that the absence of the
> > script was noticed.
> >
> > Does this happen to anyone else? Is there a way to kick Director into
> > making it aware of the changes in the linked script? Or is it just me?
> >
> > I've seen this both under Windows 2000 and Mac OS 9.04.
> >
> > Slava
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