What's happened to the help?

General
1

I’m building an IDE script, and can find nothing in the help about scripting the IDE anymore. All I can find by doing a web search is a PDF, which I must download to double check the syntax.

Is there a reason for all the IDE scripting functions to disappear from the help?

2

There is this:

http://documentation.xojo.com/index.php/Scripting_Language

But you’re right, the IDE Scripting pages have gone away. Perhaps @Paul Lefebvre can shed some light?

3

The IDE Script sections were extensively rewritten for 2013r4 and moved to the User Guide. Unfortunately, this new content did not have a decent way to lay it out in the wiki.

You can grab just a PDF of the IDE Script stuff from the wiki page, though: http://documentation.xojo.com/index.php/IDE_Script

4

I don’t find the PDF version to be as helpful as the original documentation. I much prefer a online searchable reference. Alternatively if you could lay the PDF out in a single column it would be easier to digest.

I did find an error with the “DoShellCommand” example.

[quote]Dim command As String
command = "codesign -f --deep -s ""Devel-
oper ID Application: YourName “”
"“YourXojoApp.app “””
DoShellScript(command)[/quote]
DoShellScript should be DoShellCommand.

5

One year later and I spent an good hour trying to figure this out, thank you for this thread. Still the 2015r1 docs are inaccurate…
I have filed this as 38398 but since I am off-subscription for my Xojo licenses I guess it will be closed directly.

6

[quote=171423:@Mattias Sandström]One year later and I spent an good hour trying to figure this out, thank you for this thread. Still the 2015r1 docs are inaccurate…
I have filed this as 38398 but since I am off-subscription for my Xojo licenses I guess it will be closed directly.[/quote]
What makes you think that ?
Reports against old IDE’s the usual response is “Have you tried this in a newer version”
But thus is against the docs which, unless its against the built in copy, should be up to date

7

Sam wrote last April in response to Paul that the PDF was inaccurate and gave an example. I just looked and error is still in place.