Escaped (or Comment) lines in Mapbasic script

[David Reid]

Greetings all,

 

Does escaped lines within a MB script; those lines used as comments or notes, lines beginning with an apostrophe…  When the script is compiled, do these lines get ignored?  Or do they actually add to the overall size of the MBX?

 

I have a particular script where I have many lines of notes about several particular functions.  If I want to add or edit any scripting and try to compile, the MB compiler’s knees buckle and can’t compile the script because it’s too big.

 

Thanks,

 

David Reid

[Bill Thoen]

Comments are not included in your compiled code. The compiler strips off anything that starts with an apostrophe to the carriage-return, even in object modules ( .mbo files )

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[Bill Thoen]

(I should read the whole message before responding!)

If you're getting "knee-buckling" behavior (i.e. Your script is too big; or >64k ) then you'll probably have to compile separate modules and then link them together, or be more sparing with your comments. Or you could create a separate document just for notes, like myCode.notes. The down side with that is that you now have 2 separate docs to maintain.

On Feb 9, 2017, at 9:46 AM, David Reid <dwr...@hiwaay.net> wrote:

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[Peter Horsbøll Møller]

I'm pretty sure we removed the 64k limit a while back…

What exact error are you getting?

 

Peter Horsbøll Møller
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[Thomas Bacon]

Bill’s spot on with this. If you’re reaching the 64kb limit, chances are your code could probably do with being split into modules anyway. Not only will it allow you to compile your code, but it will, provided you split your code up sensibly, help organise your code into discreet functional parts. I’ve only hit the 64kb limit a couple of times and in both cases benefited by splitting the code up into separate module files.

 

Tom

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[Uffe Kousgaard]

David may still be using a mapbasic compiler from before "a while back".

But I can see your ribbonlib has a 290 kb module, so at least from 12.5 it should handle large modules.

Regards
Uffe Kousgaard

[David Reid]

Thanks Bill, this is what I suspected.  Quite a few lines (lots) are to create a big ole’ huge tool bar, that if it were in a mechanic’s shop would have every SAE, Metric, wrench, screwdriver; phillips, torx and more in it.  As I use this toolbar quite a bit, I think I’ll pull out all the code for it and put it in it’s own “toolbar only” mbx. This would significantly cut down on the size.

 

Many of my notes are regarding using an old map function that creates a small “vicinity” map to run in conjunction with BlueMarble Geotracker for doing my 9-1-1 Addressing. And I have it quite annotated but that helps me keep things in check when I need to edit it or repeat it elsewhere.

 

Still, I think it’s time I read up on “separate modules” nevertheless.

 

Thanks again old friend!

 

-Dave

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[David Reid]

It wasn’t removed a “while back enough”   :)

Sorry, I should have mentioned in my post, I’m still running 6.5 and have found as Bill stated, it is the 64k limit.   :)

 

Thanks Peter

 

-Dave

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[David Reid]

Yeah!   What Tom said  :))

 

Thanks for the input Tom

 

-Dave

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