Shortfall with action id's in rescript

[jedstar2000]

I just installed the latest fng actions and sws actions (thanks guys) and two my horror all my scripts using RPR_Main_OnCommand(actionnumber, 0) were messed up as all the action id's shuffled around.

Is there anyway to stop this happening in the future ?

Thx Jed

[gofer]

YAY, looks like I can actually help someone in the dev forum!!! I'll mark this day with golden stars in my calendar

The problem is only with extension actions, inbuilt actions will keep their numbers. To reliably call extension actions from a script use RPR_NamedCommandLookup(custom ID) instead of the Cmd ID. You find the custom ID string in the column to the right of Cmd ID in the action list.

This (python) will call 'SWS set selected item to custom color 1'

SWS_ITEM_COLOR_1 = RPR_NamedCommandLookup('_SWS_ITEMCUSTCOL1')

RPR_Main_OnCommand(SWS_ITEM_COLOR_1, 0)

It's a two step thing. First you get the handle to the action with RPR_NamedCommandLookup and then call the action with RPR_Main_OnCommand

WIKI link (with examples): http://www.cockos.com/wiki/index.php...dCommandLookup

[jedstar2000]

Wow thanks Gofer thats definitely going to save my bacon , it would be nice if someone edited the main rescript wiki page to reflect this so others don't fall for this one, thinking about it I haven't seen any posts from Mike in ages hope he's well