[wingide-users] Scripting Documentation Problem?

[Wingware Support]

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Ken Kinder wrote:
> The manual on script WingIDE starts with this basic example: 
> http://wingware.com/doc/scripting/example
> 
> import wingapi
> def test_script(test_str):
>   app = wingapi.gApplication
>   v = "Product info is: " + str(app.GetProductInfo())
>   v += "\nAnd you typed: %s" % test_str
>   wingapi.gApplication.DisplayMessage("Test Message", v)
> 
> Which, if I'm not mistaken, generates this traceback:
> 
> Error::Error executing script 
> .user.internal_script_projectupkeep.test_script
> Runtime failure details:
> Exception: 'exceptions.AttributeError'
> Value = "CAPIApplication instance has no attribute 'DisplayMessage'"
> Traceback:
>   File "2.3/src/command/commandmgr.pyo", line 735, in Execute
>   File "/home/kkinder/.wingide2/scripts/projectupkeep.py", line 6, in 
> test_script
>     wingapi.gApplication.DisplayMessage("Test Message", v)

Yes, it should be ShowMessageDialog().  The docs were not updated
in time for the release.

Sorry about that.

- Stephan