Running a Script

Running a script from inside the script editor is very simple. Create a new script or load an old script. Then click on the "Play" button in the menu bar.

If the script is new or has changed you will be asked to save it before it runs. If you choose to not save the script the it will not be run. When the script is running if you would like to stop it just click on the "Stop" button on the menu bar and a moment later the script will be stopped. Any log messages the script generates will be displayed in the "Output" section of the Script Editor.

When the script is finished running you can click on any message in the "Output" window to jump to the line in the script that generated that log statement.

One more thing to notice is the top three lines of every script you create. They look like...

// #name	<place script name here>
// #description	<place description of script here>
// #automatic	yes

Those three lines provide information to Easy Automation about the script you have created. If you fill in the name and description, the Script Manager will display that information in the script list instead of the filename of the script. The last seting is the #automatic setting. If that setting is set to "yes" then every time the script manager starts up this script will be loaded. If you set it to "no" then the script will only be run if you run it in the Script Editor or choose "Run" on the Script Manager's script menu.

There is a small gray square in the margin nexts to those lines. If you click on that a dialog will pop up to help you edit those lines of code. There are other gray boxes in the margins next to blocks of code created by wizards. Clicking on those gray boxes will reactivate the wizard that created the code and allow you to make changes to it. It should be noted that anything inside of the comments...

// #wizard

and

// #end_wizard

will be replaced when the wizard is finished. So if you make changes to code inside of those blocks, we suggest you erase those two comments which will remove the gray square from the margin. That way you don't accidentally wipe out your changes later.

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