really silly mistakes (go me)

[Matt_D]

Do we have anywhere to put our really silly mistakes (you know the equivelent of spending 2 hours trying to figure out why your pl/sql script isn't working becouse you used a : instead of a ; or something like that may of been an l instead of an I )

I only ask becouse I was trying to get an image to work with the new kana mode and it just wouldn't fly, two hours of muttering, cursing, and searching (sadly invalid syntax shall forever be the evilest of compiler errors) until I realise what I'd been doing

I'd been doing this

"init:
python:
image bg 001 = "001.jpg"
"
as I'd copied and pasted the contents of the kana rpy it seemed rational, I looked at all the other examples thinking "grrr what silly thing am I doing" becouse I knew full well that this would be much like the "forgeting to leave a blank line at the end of the file" problem.

It then dawned on me that the python clause was another indent deep... and then I realised that I should have been putting

"init:
image bg 001 = "001.jpg"
python:
"
tadaa, lol, I think this would be a classic example of a starters error? Go me!

[monele]

Good one. I didn't really spot the problem until you showed it ^^;

[Watercolorheart]

"forgetting to leave a blank line at the end of the file"

I've run into that one more times than I care to count. Fortunately, that's usually the first thing I look for now ... I remember one of my first betas, spending 40+ minutes trying to figure out why it didn't work.

I sometimes wrote my story directly into Ren'Py and in the course of deleting and whatnot, I would erase that space ... now I write it in a different program and paste it over.

[Taters]

http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... 46d20c0c5d

'nuff said.