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The Script-IV Editor and Compiler

Scripts are created, maintained, and compiled using Source-IV. Source-IV is a source code management system distributed with Dictionary-IV.

For details on how to maintain and compile Scripts in Source-IV, please refer to the Source-IV manual.

It is strongly recommended that all scripts be imported to Source-IV. For details on how to import script into Source-IV, see the Source-IV manual.

A few advantages to Source-IV include:

  • Compiler includes more robust run time error processing and debugging
  • Compiler supports compiling by range
  • Editor supports source locking and edit history including edit history rollback
  • Editor supports copy and paste
  • Editor supports search and replace by module or library
  • Editor supports F3 on a #format_name to display the format definition
  • Supports “S” type Script Methods for OPENworkshop

For details on how to maintain and compile Scripts using the older IDOL Script editor, please refer to the appendix later in this manual.

From the Script-IV Developer Guide, version 8.9.1. Open this page in the PDF