c.haslam Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 (edited) I (perhaps I am not alone) have a bad habit of forgetting to key a closing parenthesis to match an opening parenthesis. A fair bit of the time, when I do, Au3Check tells me about errors that are not errors. I am then left to discover what my error really is. It is always reported, but is often not the first line with a red box under it. Perhaps others have this experience.So I suggest that one of the first things Au3Check should do is to check for balanced parentheses on each line of code. And, perhaps, if there are unbalanced parentheses, Au3Check should only report them. I make the same suggestion for square brackets.I hope that giving unbalanced priority would not be a huge change in Au3Check.While I am on the subject of Au3Check, if my function foo() takes 4 parameters, and I call it once with 4 arguments and, further down in my code, I call it with 3, Au3Check catches my error, but tells me the line number where foo() is called correctly, rather than the line number where I called foo() with only 3 arguments. It would be nice if Au3Check pointed me to the line where I made an error. Thoughts? Edited June 27, 2015 by c.haslam Spoiler CDebug Dumps values of variables including arrays and DLL structs, to a GUI, to the Console, and to the Clipboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mLipok Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 Show example code. Signature beginning:* Please remember: "AutoIt"..... * Wondering who uses AutoIt and what it can be used for ? * Forum Rules ** ADO.au3 UDF * POP3.au3 UDF * XML.au3 UDF * IE on Windows 11 * How to ask ChatGPT for AutoIt Code * for other useful stuff click the following button: Spoiler Any of my own code posted anywhere on the forum is available for use by others without any restriction of any kind. My contribution (my own projects): * Debenu Quick PDF Library - UDF * Debenu PDF Viewer SDK - UDF * Acrobat Reader - ActiveX Viewer * UDF for PDFCreator v1.x.x * XZip - UDF * AppCompatFlags UDF * CrowdinAPI UDF * _WinMergeCompare2Files() * _JavaExceptionAdd() * _IsBeta() * Writing DPI Awareness App - workaround * _AutoIt_RequiredVersion() * Chilkatsoft.au3 UDF * TeamViewer.au3 UDF * JavaManagement UDF * VIES over SOAP * WinSCP UDF * GHAPI UDF - modest begining - comunication with GitHub REST API * ErrorLog.au3 UDF - A logging Library * Include Dependency Tree (Tool for analyzing script relations) * Show_Macro_Values.au3 * My contribution to others projects or UDF based on others projects: * _sql.au3 UDF * POP3.au3 UDF * RTF Printer - UDF * XML.au3 UDF * ADO.au3 UDF * SMTP Mailer UDF * Dual Monitor resolution detection * * 2GUI on Dual Monitor System * _SciLexer.au3 UDF * SciTE - Lexer for console pane * Useful links: * Forum Rules * Forum etiquette * Forum Information and FAQs * How to post code on the forum * AutoIt Online Documentation * AutoIt Online Beta Documentation * SciTE4AutoIt3 getting started * Convert text blocks to AutoIt code * Games made in Autoit * Programming related sites * Polish AutoIt Tutorial * DllCall Code Generator * Wiki: * Expand your knowledge - AutoIt Wiki * Collection of User Defined Functions * How to use HelpFile * Good coding practices in AutoIt * OpenOffice/LibreOffice/XLS Related: WriterDemo.au3 * XLS/MDB from scratch with ADOX IE Related: * How to use IE.au3 UDF with AutoIt v3.3.14.x * Why isn't Autoit able to click a Javascript Dialog? * Clicking javascript button with no ID * IE document >> save as MHT file * IETab Switcher (by LarsJ ) * HTML Entities * _IEquerySelectorAll() (by uncommon) * IE in TaskScheduler * IE Embedded Control Versioning (use IE9+ and HTML5 in a GUI) * PDF Related: * How to get reference to PDF object embeded in IE * IE on Windows 11 * I encourage you to read: * Global Vars * Best Coding Practices * Please explain code used in Help file for several File functions * OOP-like approach in AutoIt * UDF-Spec Questions * EXAMPLE: How To Catch ConsoleWrite() output to a file or to CMD *I also encourage you to check awesome @trancexx code: * Create COM objects from modules without any demand on user to register anything. * Another COM object registering stuff * OnHungApp handler * Avoid "AutoIt Error" message box in unknown errors * HTML editor * winhttp.au3 related : * https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/206771-winhttpau3-download-problem-youre-speaking-plain-http-to-an-ssl-enabled-server-port/ "Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto" - Publius Terentius Afer"Program are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers and execute" - Donald Knuth, "The Art of Computer Programming" , be and \\//_. Anticipating Errors : "Any program that accepts data from a user must include code to validate that data before sending it to the data store. You cannot rely on the data store, ...., or even your programming language to notify you of problems. You must check every byte entered by your users, making sure that data is the correct type for its field and that required fields are not empty." Signature last update: 2023-04-24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchd Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 About the mismatched number of arguments, that would require Au3Check to perform like a compiler, while it works like an interpretor. Only when the declaration is reached, Au3Check can verify if previous function calls were valid or not.If yopu insist on getting the error message right and pointing to the first misuse, then place all your functions before their invokations (refactor your script à la Pascal). This wonderful site allows debugging and testing regular expressions (many flavors available). An absolute must have in your bookmarks.Another excellent RegExp tutorial. Don't forget downloading your copy of up-to-date pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe hereRegExp tutorial: enough to get startedPCRE v8.33 regexp documentation latest available release and currently implemented in AutoIt beta. SQLitespeed is another feature-rich premier SQLite manager (includes import/export). Well worth a try.SQLite Expert (freeware Personal Edition or payware Pro version) is a very useful SQLite database manager.An excellent eBook covering almost every aspect of SQLite3: a must-read for anyone doing serious work.SQL tutorial (covers "generic" SQL, but most of it applies to SQLite as well)A work-in-progress SQLite3 tutorial. Don't miss other LxyzTHW pages!SQLite official website with full documentation (may be newer than the SQLite library that comes standard with AutoIt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c.haslam Posted June 27, 2015 Author Share Posted June 27, 2015 The problem is that Au4Check points to a valid function call, not an invalid one. Spoiler CDebug Dumps values of variables including arrays and DLL structs, to a GUI, to the Console, and to the Clipboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchd Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 c(1, 2) c() Func c() Return 0 EndFunc c(1) a() a(1) a(1, 2) a(1, 2, 3) b() b(1) b(1, 2) Func a($p1 = 0, $p2 = 0) Return($p1 + $p2) EndFunc Func b($p1 = 0) Return($p1 + 1) EndFuncWhich failure do you see here? This wonderful site allows debugging and testing regular expressions (many flavors available). An absolute must have in your bookmarks.Another excellent RegExp tutorial. Don't forget downloading your copy of up-to-date pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe hereRegExp tutorial: enough to get startedPCRE v8.33 regexp documentation latest available release and currently implemented in AutoIt beta. SQLitespeed is another feature-rich premier SQLite manager (includes import/export). Well worth a try.SQLite Expert (freeware Personal Edition or payware Pro version) is a very useful SQLite database manager.An excellent eBook covering almost every aspect of SQLite3: a must-read for anyone doing serious work.SQL tutorial (covers "generic" SQL, but most of it applies to SQLite as well)A work-in-progress SQLite3 tutorial. Don't miss other LxyzTHW pages!SQLite official website with full documentation (may be newer than the SQLite library that comes standard with AutoIt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trancexx Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 The OP talks about this jchd:a() a(1, 2) Func a() EndFunc ♡♡♡ . eMyvnE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c.haslam Posted June 27, 2015 Author Share Posted June 27, 2015 (edited) jchdYes, Au3Check does its work properly on your script, by reporting an error on line 1. But if I reverse lines 1 and 2, Au3Check points me to line 1 (now c()). It should point to line 2 (now c(1, 2)).This is not a problem with a short script, but it is annoying when the script is long, and the calls to c() may be hundreds of lines apart. One has to use Ctrl_F and F3 to find which call is bad.PS I just edited my post to correct unbalanced parentheses! Edited June 28, 2015 by c.haslam Spoiler CDebug Dumps values of variables including arrays and DLL structs, to a GUI, to the Console, and to the Clipboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchd Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 I agree and the new editor played we a bad joke by ripping out a sentence in my previous answer, where I wrote that the first invocation of a function (when the func declaration isn't previously encountered) dictates where the error is pointed out.I agree that this causes some inconvenience but given how Au3Check currently works (line after line), it isn't surprising. Working out precisely the wrong call(s) to a function would require Au3Check to make a note for each invocation of yet undefined functions with its number of arguments to finally, when encountering the actual function definition, be able to point you to wrong calls. In large scripts that would certainly represent a large amount of data. It's certainly possible, but this is AFAICT not the way this utility works, would require a serious rewrite and I'm not sure Jos is willing to undergo such task.Again, if you want to guard yourself against misleading error pointers, refactor your scripts in the Pascal style, with every function declaration preceding it's invocation(s). This wonderful site allows debugging and testing regular expressions (many flavors available). An absolute must have in your bookmarks.Another excellent RegExp tutorial. Don't forget downloading your copy of up-to-date pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe hereRegExp tutorial: enough to get startedPCRE v8.33 regexp documentation latest available release and currently implemented in AutoIt beta. SQLitespeed is another feature-rich premier SQLite manager (includes import/export). Well worth a try.SQLite Expert (freeware Personal Edition or payware Pro version) is a very useful SQLite database manager.An excellent eBook covering almost every aspect of SQLite3: a must-read for anyone doing serious work.SQL tutorial (covers "generic" SQL, but most of it applies to SQLite as well)A work-in-progress SQLite3 tutorial. Don't miss other LxyzTHW pages!SQLite official website with full documentation (may be newer than the SQLite library that comes standard with AutoIt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mLipok Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 (edited) Sorry to intrude in this interesting discussion. .... refactor your scripts in the Pascal style, with every function declaration preceding it's invocation(s).@jchdCurrently I had the idea that all "functions" in each of my script were as UDF files , the main file would contain only #include region and after this Function call inside the main loop. Is this idea is the realization of your statements ?btw.Is such a concept (my concept idea) is correct from the point of view of code readability EDIT: and yours experiences. ?mLipok Edited June 27, 2015 by mLipok Signature beginning:* Please remember: "AutoIt"..... * Wondering who uses AutoIt and what it can be used for ? * Forum Rules ** ADO.au3 UDF * POP3.au3 UDF * XML.au3 UDF * IE on Windows 11 * How to ask ChatGPT for AutoIt Code * for other useful stuff click the following button: Spoiler Any of my own code posted anywhere on the forum is available for use by others without any restriction of any kind. My contribution (my own projects): * Debenu Quick PDF Library - UDF * Debenu PDF Viewer SDK - UDF * Acrobat Reader - ActiveX Viewer * UDF for PDFCreator v1.x.x * XZip - UDF * AppCompatFlags UDF * CrowdinAPI UDF * _WinMergeCompare2Files() * _JavaExceptionAdd() * _IsBeta() * Writing DPI Awareness App - workaround * _AutoIt_RequiredVersion() * Chilkatsoft.au3 UDF * TeamViewer.au3 UDF * JavaManagement UDF * VIES over SOAP * WinSCP UDF * GHAPI UDF - modest begining - comunication with GitHub REST API * ErrorLog.au3 UDF - A logging Library * Include Dependency Tree (Tool for analyzing script relations) * Show_Macro_Values.au3 * My contribution to others projects or UDF based on others projects: * _sql.au3 UDF * POP3.au3 UDF * RTF Printer - UDF * XML.au3 UDF * ADO.au3 UDF * SMTP Mailer UDF * Dual Monitor resolution detection * * 2GUI on Dual Monitor System * _SciLexer.au3 UDF * SciTE - Lexer for console pane * Useful links: * Forum Rules * Forum etiquette * Forum Information and FAQs * How to post code on the forum * AutoIt Online Documentation * AutoIt Online Beta Documentation * SciTE4AutoIt3 getting started * Convert text blocks to AutoIt code * Games made in Autoit * Programming related sites * Polish AutoIt Tutorial * DllCall Code Generator * Wiki: * Expand your knowledge - AutoIt Wiki * Collection of User Defined Functions * How to use HelpFile * Good coding practices in AutoIt * OpenOffice/LibreOffice/XLS Related: WriterDemo.au3 * XLS/MDB from scratch with ADOX IE Related: * How to use IE.au3 UDF with AutoIt v3.3.14.x * Why isn't Autoit able to click a Javascript Dialog? * Clicking javascript button with no ID * IE document >> save as MHT file * IETab Switcher (by LarsJ ) * HTML Entities * _IEquerySelectorAll() (by uncommon) * IE in TaskScheduler * IE Embedded Control Versioning (use IE9+ and HTML5 in a GUI) * PDF Related: * How to get reference to PDF object embeded in IE * IE on Windows 11 * I encourage you to read: * Global Vars * Best Coding Practices * Please explain code used in Help file for several File functions * OOP-like approach in AutoIt * UDF-Spec Questions * EXAMPLE: How To Catch ConsoleWrite() output to a file or to CMD *I also encourage you to check awesome @trancexx code: * Create COM objects from modules without any demand on user to register anything. * Another COM object registering stuff * OnHungApp handler * Avoid "AutoIt Error" message box in unknown errors * HTML editor * winhttp.au3 related : * https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/206771-winhttpau3-download-problem-youre-speaking-plain-http-to-an-ssl-enabled-server-port/ "Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto" - Publius Terentius Afer"Program are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers and execute" - Donald Knuth, "The Art of Computer Programming" , be and \\//_. Anticipating Errors : "Any program that accepts data from a user must include code to validate that data before sending it to the data store. You cannot rely on the data store, ...., or even your programming language to notify you of problems. You must check every byte entered by your users, making sure that data is the correct type for its field and that required fields are not empty." Signature last update: 2023-04-24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchd Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 Smells like Pascal and quiche eaters This wonderful site allows debugging and testing regular expressions (many flavors available). An absolute must have in your bookmarks.Another excellent RegExp tutorial. Don't forget downloading your copy of up-to-date pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe hereRegExp tutorial: enough to get startedPCRE v8.33 regexp documentation latest available release and currently implemented in AutoIt beta. SQLitespeed is another feature-rich premier SQLite manager (includes import/export). Well worth a try.SQLite Expert (freeware Personal Edition or payware Pro version) is a very useful SQLite database manager.An excellent eBook covering almost every aspect of SQLite3: a must-read for anyone doing serious work.SQL tutorial (covers "generic" SQL, but most of it applies to SQLite as well)A work-in-progress SQLite3 tutorial. Don't miss other LxyzTHW pages!SQLite official website with full documentation (may be newer than the SQLite library that comes standard with AutoIt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c.haslam Posted June 28, 2015 Author Share Posted June 28, 2015 Thank you all for your thoughts (and time!) Spoiler CDebug Dumps values of variables including arrays and DLL structs, to a GUI, to the Console, and to the Clipboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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