ImportScript feedback : Developer's Corner

While ImportScript is useful it currently suffers from some VERY BIG problems.

1) Error is popped up in a dialog box.
2) Error dialog is improperly sized.
3) No feedback is given to the user to indicate what went wrong. <-- THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.
4) There's no entry in the log about what went wrong.

In it's current state it's useless for all but the one making the script. I'm thinking of releasing a special version of XUFish without ImportScript calls simply to reduce the number of people who can't get it working because of this command.

I agree completely. Import Script is quite touchy at times, but it is very usefull to me anyways. Just needs some error feedback((logfiel dump?) and maybe to pop up the error message in the script window status bar instead of a msg box.

Can you give me an example of the pop up message?

Suggested error messages would be:
1) ImportScript failed! File "xyz.vbs" not found!
2) ImportScript failed! Error when pasing file "xyz.vbs"!

The log file should preferrable include a detailed description with full path, line and column of error etc etc.

I think he means an example script that would cause the pop ups.

sure. use the importscript function with anyfile that has an syntax error in it and you'll get the popup.