[APBeta] Global observations script

[Christopher Todd]

Jeff,

I finally got a chance to try your script tonight with 2.0b27, but it is
throwing an Exception if I try to print observation details (doLongForm is
true).

I've not worked much with REALbasic, but I went to the realsoftware website
and downloaded the REALbasic2009r1/LanguageReference.pdf, and was reading up
on RuntimeExceptions and try/catch blocks.  I'll be darned if I can figure
out how to get more details about what exception is being thrown, or from
what line of the script, or what the error message is.

If I use the syntax in the docs:
try 
   // lots of other code
catch err as OutOfBoundsException
   print "Caught a RuntimeException: 
" + Str(err.ErrorNumber) + " " +
err.Message + " " + err.Stack
end try

I get "There is no class with this name" when I check for errors.

So how do I capture information about the RuntimeException being thrown?

Chris


On 3/17/09 5:06 PM, "Chris Todd" <christopher.todd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oooh, I can't wait to get home and try this out!  Thanks for posting,
> Jeff.  May I assume, since this was sent to the Beta testing list,
> that it works in V2?
> 
> 2009/3/17 Jeff Young <jey at adobe.com>:
>> I have a script I use to print out a PDF of all my observations.  (It also
>> has a mode that generates a simple list of all observed objects and the
>> date/times for each observation.)  It¹s based on an old script (that I think
>> Paul wrote), but it¹s been through some major metamorphisis.
>> 
>> I¹d upload it to the general area, but it contains a couple of sections of
>> hard-coded stuff that¹s probably only useful with my plans.  (These include
>> the format of the transparency field and the location of a plan containing
>> all the planets and comets.)
>> 
>> However, for those of you who write script and want to customize it (or
>> simply change the hard-coded parts to your liking), I¹ve appended it to this
>> message.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> -- Jeff.