Noob question about Automation Blocks extension

Question

Hi. I'm just starting out with the Automation Blocks extension.

I watched tutorials and on the Mamoworld website, and I'm ready to give it a try.

Just out of curiousity, I decided to start out with the most basic script possible to write "Hello World" in the Console.

From "User Interface & Comments" I dragged the "Write to console..." block to the script panel.

In the block I changed the default text from "my message" to "Hello World"

I hit "Save" and then hit "Run Script"

I checked the Console, but it only says "execute script". It doesn't say "Hello World" as I expected.

What am I doing wrong?

Mathias Moehl · Answer

Your console should look somewhat like this:

You see that it contains your "Hello World", but also some other messages.

When running a script, Automation Blocks always prints some default messages showing the execution status.

In particular it will show the following messages:

- "execute script" right before the script execution

- "execution result" when execution of the script is finished (this message will show the value of the last executed block. It is "undefined" for the write to console block and many others

- "destructor final endpoint reached" indicates that the script is really completely done. This is only relevant in cases, where a script uses the "After Media Encoder is Done Rendering" block. If the "execution result" message shows up, but the "final end point reached" does not show up, it means that the main code of the script is finished, but the script is still waiting for the render queue to finish and once that is the case, it will continue execution.

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