error message

Tonapah wrote on 2/3/2004, 8:24 AM

I am getting the following error message at the attempted running of any script:
Error on line 1:
Expected expression

I have disabled Norton script blocking but possibly there may be another source of blocking- if that is what is going on.
I am new to scripts.
Thanks

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jetdv wrote on 2/3/2004, 8:39 AM

Sounds like you double-clicked the script in Explorer.

To run a script, in VEGAS go to Tools - Scripting - Run Script and then pick the script file from that dialog.

Tonapah wrote on 2/3/2004, 11:31 PM

Thanks, but unfortunately this is within Vegas

jetdv wrote on 2/4/2004, 6:49 AM

Ok. You said "Any" script. What scripts have you tried and where/how did you get them?

Tonapah wrote on 2/4/2004, 8:50 AM

Thanks for the follow up.
Most of all of them are from Sundance - I have two batch render scripts I am mainly interested in - but I spent a half hour or so downloading a bunch of scripts from Spot's site and I get the same error message on all of them.
I suspect a script blocking software I may have used fighting some pop-up wars earlier on.
Here is first few lines of the Batch Render script:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"></HEAD>
<BODY>

/**

 * This script can be used to queue up multiple Vegas project files

 * to be rendered.

 *

 * Revision Date: Feb. 11, 2003

 **/



import System.IO;

import System.Windows.Forms;

import SonicFoundry.Vegas;



// Modify the following two lines to suit you needs for the output

// format.

var rendererRE = /Video for Windows/;

var templateRE = /NTSC DV/;



etc

jetdv wrote on 2/4/2004, 9:02 AM

The FIRST line of the script is:

/**

Get rid of:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"></HEAD>
<BODY>

There may also be some HTML at the end of the script you also have to get rid of.

Tonapah wrote on 2/4/2004, 11:40 AM

Thanks Ed.
I compared the vegas supplied batch-render script on the installation disk and what I had downloaded and saw some of that extranneous stuff at the top. I will also check out the end.
I appreciate the help,