Getting
Started With Scripting
Step 1
Scripting is fun! I hope to get
you started with scripting by doing easy
steps.
The
first thing to become familiar with in
scripting is the script toolbar and the
Script Output window. If you do
not
have it displayed in your PSP program,
let’s do that now.
Choose
View – Toolbars – Script. It will
look like this:
Let’s
look at the script toolbar and see what
it does –
The
select script window allows you to see
all the scripts that you have recorded
or
have
in your Trusted and Restricted folder.
The Run
script button – does exactly that. After
you have recorded a script -it
will run the script.
Start
Recording
button – Click this button to start
recording all your key actions.
Edit
Script button allows you to make changes
to the script.
Pause
Script – click this button while
recording to temporary pause. This
button
is only active when you are doing script
recording.
The X
button means stop recording.
One
more button – the toggle button.
This button-when activated- will
walk you through
the
scripts.
Instead of running, it will stop at each
action.
Next we
want to open the Script Output window.
You can do this
two ways. If you want to dock
it to
your
palette – choose View – Palette – Script
Output.
You can
also press the F3 key to get the Script
Output window. By toggling this
key, you will
make
it visible and invisible.
The
Script Output window gives us a lot of
information when running your script. It
is also
helpful
to find errors. I would suggest
that you do keep this window open when
running scripts.
Okay- I
know that’s a lot of information, but it
will all make sense when you get
started.
Please
be sure that your file locations are set
in PSP where your scripts will be saved.
Okay, everything
ready? You are going to write a
script and run it.
On to - Writing a
script.
Record
Your First Script
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