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Need more documentation when creating/testing user defined commands
ajax:
The significant capability of Multi Commander that captured my interest is the ability to create and use user defined commands/scripts. Thought I was doing pretty good on my first one until trying to run it and finding that it failed.
I was able to find the log files which contained error codes but absent some explanation of what they mean they are pretty useless. Is there a reference that would solve such problem?
Likewise, the procedure for creating a "Custom Command" is nicely documented but lacking some necessary details. It appears as though my intuitive attempt to specify function arguments must have gotten it wrong. A bit a trial and error hacking didn't overcome the problem. Some elaboration on the meaning of these parameters also seems necessary for this to be an effective tool.
While the documentation for Multi Commander overall appears to be very nice the shortcomings mentioned above happen to be critical to my finding the use of Multi Commander to be worthwhile.
AlanJB:
Have you used the MultiScript debugger at Menu -> Help -> MultiScript Debugger ?
And looked at the documentation at http://multicommander.com/docs/multiscript/ and subsections ?
ajax:
No!
My interpretation based on reading the documentation is that MultiScript is not what I was trying to do. What I thought I was doing is called Custom Command.
When I, now, open MultiScript Debugger it seems to know about the 2 built in commands. One appears to be MultiScript (Google Search) the other External (Play M3U in folder). Not sure why my command is not listed.
Thought to copy and paste from Configuration>User Defined Commands, then selected (Run) arrow, then selected stepover (ICON). Messages indicate started and attached (actually spelled as "attched") but no error reported and nothing seems to have happened. The file operations log contains the same error.
How are we supposed to interpret those errors?
AlanJB:
Ah — my bad, sorry — I missed "Custom Command". Obviously the MultiScript Debugger will not help.
There is a list of Custom Commands with their purpose and parameters here:
http://multicommander.com/docs/customcommands_list
Mathias (Author):
--- Quote from: ajax on June 24, 2018, 18:59:16 ---The significant capability of Multi Commander that captured my interest is the ability to create and use user defined commands/scripts. Thought I was doing pretty good on my first one until trying to run it and finding that it failed.
I was able to find the log files which contained error codes but absent some explanation of what they mean they are pretty useless. Is there a reference that would solve such problem?
Likewise, the procedure for creating a "Custom Command" is nicely documented but lacking some necessary details. It appears as though my intuitive attempt to specify function arguments must have gotten it wrong. A bit a trial and error hacking didn't overcome the problem. Some elaboration on the meaning of these parameters also seems necessary for this to be an effective tool.
While the documentation for Multi Commander overall appears to be very nice the shortcomings mentioned above happen to be critical to my finding the use of Multi Commander to be worthwhile.
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Yes documentation is lacking. Unfortunately it is a very time consuming to write. And becuse of my limited time I have to choose if I want to add features and fix bug or update documentation. and it often falls on code.
If you use MultiScript there is a debugger that run script line by line.. (As mention above)
The documentationfor "Custom commands" is very well documented I think. and if you use the built in editor for that you see a short description text for what each paramters is doing too.
If you can give me a specific example that is lacking I will se if I can add it. Or just ask in the forum if you have any issues
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