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kweatherhead
10-24-2007, 02:20 PM
Greetings,

Does the scripting tool in SUF 7.0 allow you to have Continuation Lines for long command lines? I hate how laser printers just chop off the right hand end of a line and I prefer to see the entire command on the screen without scrolling anyway.

Regards,
Keith
pww
10-24-2007, 05:59 PM
instead of
myCmd = "some long string";

you may use

myCmd = "some ";
myCmd = myCmd .. "long ";
myCmd = myCmd .. "string";
Brett
10-25-2007, 12:14 AM
or...

myCmd = [[some
long
string]];
kweatherhead
10-25-2007, 11:56 AM
or...

myCmd = [[some
long
string]];

The previous answer was what I would consider as concatenation...
are you saying that a single command line can span multiple physical lines if enclosed with "[[" and "]]" ?

For example... Registry.SetValue ... Example 1 .. SUF 7.0 Help

Where the following is really one long line...

Registry.SetValue (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "Software\\My Application", "InstallPath", _ProgramFilesFolder .. "\\My Application", 1);


could be coded as 2 physical lines via:

[[ Registry.SetValue (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "Software\\My Application",
"InstallPath", _ProgramFilesFolder .. "\\My Application", 1)]];


Correct?

Regards,
Keith
kweatherhead
10-25-2007, 12:20 PM
or...

myCmd = [[some
long
string]];

In addition, to clarify, if a return value is part of the command, would the format then be like this?

is_there = [[Registry.DoesKeyExist (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
"Software\\My Application")]];

Regards,
Keith
Brett
10-25-2007, 02:41 PM
Sorry, I misunderstood your question. The [[...]] formatting if for strings only. If you are taking about breaking function calls onto separate lines, that is fine as long as you break them between arguments:

is_there = Registry.DoesKeyExist (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
"Software\\My Application");
kweatherhead
10-25-2007, 02:47 PM
Sorry, I misunderstood your question. The [[...]] formatting if for strings only. If you are taking about breaking function calls onto separate lines, that is fine as long as you break them between arguments:

is_there = Registry.DoesKeyExist (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
"Software\\My Application");

Brett,

Thanx for the clarification. Yes I was talking about functions and the likes, however, knowing the string option is nice, too !!

Regards,
Keith