Running successive scripts

[terrypin]

Suppose you have several working scripts, say A, B and C, which work fine when you run them individually on an image, one after the other. Is there some consistently reliable method to combine them in a new script X please? My attempts to do it by pasting the text into a new file have failed, despite all sorts of (admittedly uninformed) editing. Usually the result has been either nothing at all, ran but gave an obscure error, or ran but performed only the later part of the script.

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

[JoeB]

Do you want all of the commands in all three of the scripts to run from start to finish, or do you want to have the first script run, then pause to do something else to the image, then run the second script, pause, then run the third script? In any event, you will likely have to post the three scripts and your combined script to let people determine what the problem might be. You might be copying some code from scripts B and C that is causing the issues.

EDIT: Ooops, I see that you had a previous thread going and have posted a couple of scripts there, so maybe the responders in that thread will solve your problem.

[terrypin]

Thanks. Yes, I want to run all three successively, with no manual intervention.

My post did arise from that other long thread about a specific problem. But I'm generalising here. IOW, is there a tried and tested way to do this in a text editor? I'm guessing you can paste them in, bu then have to remove some parts and/or other editing?

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

[JoeB]

Thanks. Yes, I want to run all three successively, with no manual intervention.

My post did arise from that other long thread about a specific problem. But I'm generalising here. IOW, is there a tried and tested way to do this in a text editor? I'm guessing you can paste them in, bu then have to remove some parts and/or other editing?

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Not really, except that you don't have to copy the headers with stuff like PSPApp, etc at the top. And as mentioned by others in the other thread you have to make sure you copy from the left margin to the right at the bottom to ensure that you aren't missing the spacing and are keeping all the syntax intact. And depending on what script you're copying to add to another script the last command of the upper script and the first command of the added script have to be compatible. In other words, if the last command is such that it makes it impossible for the first command of the next script to be able to run then the script will stop with an error, but I can't think of an example where that would happen at the moment.

[terrypin]

Thanks. What I'm doing is simply this:
1. Open A and B separately in my text editor (or Notepad)
2. Go to the line in A below the last and use Enter to add a blank line
3. At the start of the line below, paste in script B.
4. Remove the duplicated lines at the start of the second script's contribution

Code: Select all

from JascApp import *

def ScriptProperties():
    return {
        'Author': 'Terry Pinnell',
        'Copyright': '',
        'Description': '',
        'Host': 'Paint Shop Pro',
        'Host Version': '8.10'
        }

5. Save with a new name, say A+B.pspscript.

Is that all OK?

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK