How to display debugging in ExtendScript Toolkit

[worldveil]

Hi everyone,

I am very new to CS4 Photoshop Scripting. But I am now using ExtendScript Toolkit to script .jsx files and run them from the Toolkit.

But one thing annoys me: I can't get the IDE to display error and error information. How can I enable this? Currently the only indication of an error that I get is a small line of text (not even copyable) down on the status bar of the application, and a highlighted line showing where only one (1) error is.

Can anyone help me turn on this functionality? Or is there a better way to compile and run .jsx files for Photoshop in a different environment? Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[Mike Hale]

JavaScript is not compiled, it is interpreted. ESTK can not display all the errors in a script at one time. It can only report any errors it finds when interpreting each statement.

I think you will find as you spend more time scripting that the error message in the status bar is enough. However you can wrap your code in a try/catch block and send the error details to the console or a file.

Code: Select alltry{
    forceerror
}catch(e){
    $.writeln('Error at line '+e.line+'; '+e);
}

[worldveil]

Thanks that works great! I can debug now.

Also, how do I mark that a post is solved?

[Mike Hale]

worldveil wrote:how do I mark that a post is solved?

That would require a phpBB mod that we have not installed. So I'm afraid you can't mark the post solved.