[Gambas-user] Gambas scripter

[Ron]

Ron wrote:
>
> Some first experiences building scripts using gbs2
>
> Is it possible to display the errors at end of the output?
> If you execute a large script from shell and have a compile error you 
> keep on scrolling up to see the error.
>
> Or even better when there is an error on a line, display the script 
> source until that line number with the error below it.
> Maybe this is difficult because of the way scripting works. And/or 
> display line numbers in front of source code lines.
>
> Another thing, there is no way to get the file name of the script from 
> within the code.
>
> Application.Args[0] = 
> /tmp/gambas.1000/script-cache/75ee02d930493c0fdc45e92c5b297df5
>
> Application.Name =  6dc71006365626c9524efb11972ce2af
>
> Script name in this case was 'callerid.script'
>

Application.Path is also pointing to the cache/tmp directory instead of 
the real location of the script.
Application.Path = /tmp/gambas.1000/script-cache

I begin to see now, why I couldn't use it that easily last time.

If you have to start using things like 'EXEC [ "pwd" ] TO sPwd' to get 
the current dir it doesn't make sense to use a Gambas script.

Regards,
Ron_2nd.