[Gambas-user] Gambas scripter

[Benoît Minisini]

> Ron wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> If you have this script:
> ----------------
> #! /usr/bin/env gbs2
> 
> PUBLIC SUB Main()
> 
> END
> 
> ' a comment
> ----------------
> 
> You get:
> ----------------
> /tmp/gambas.1000/12566/project.tmp/MMain.module:13: 'Main' already declared
> 
> ' Gambas module file
> 
> 
> PUBLIC SUB Main()
> 
> END
> 
> PUBLIC SUB Main()
> 
> ' a comment
> 
> END
> ----------------
> 
> This is ok:
> 
> #! /usr/bin/env gbs2
> 
> 
> PUBLIC SUB Main()
> 
> ' comment
> 
> END
> ----------------
> ie comments at the end of a script/outside SUBs are making the compiler
> crazy, and me too until I found out what the problem was. ;-p
> 
> Gambas 2.18.0
> 
> Regards,
> Ron_2nd.
> 

That bug should be fixed in revision #2578.

Regards, 

-- 
Benoît Minisini