[JS][CS5] De-bugging with Extendscript

[Roy Marshall]

Hi. Just a quickie...

I am putting together a script that opens a txt file in a folder in relation to the script using:

var myFile = File(app.activeScript.parent + "/textFolder/roys text file.txt");

For some reason, in Extendscript i get the error "No Script is Active" when de-bugging.  The script itself does run when run from the script panel.

Is this usual behavour?

Cheers

Roy

[absqua]

Yes it is. See http://forums.adobe.com/message/2327073#2327073 for a workaround function.

Jeff

[jpegsexpert]

Sorry to be dense, but I didn't see where in that thread you linked to this issue was addressed.  Can you give some more details?

*edit* oh, I see, you linked to a specific post in that long thread, my browser didn't land on that the first time for some reason:

I use Dave Saunders function to get path to current script file folder (allows debugging)

1. function getScriptFolder(){ 
2.      try {  
3.           var activeScript = File(app.activeScript);  
4.      } catch(e) {  
5.           // running from ESTK ...  
6.           var activeScript = File(e.fileName);  
7.      }  
8.      return activeScript.parent; 
9. } 

and reference to it

1. getScriptFolder() + "\\mypic.png" 

[AriEss]

I encounter this issue a lot and it's very frustrating, but I find Dave Saunder's approach to be brilliant. Will start using it from now on.