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Apprentice Joined: 19 Jan 2001 Posts: 117 Location: Norway

If I make a subfolder and put an alias named a and a variable named b in that subfolder, creating a new alias named a and a variable called b in the main folder woun't overwrite the alias and variable in the subfolder.

I now have two aliases named a and two variables called b.

I understand this has been done to avoid ppl messing up their own scripts etc. but is there a way to overrule it? Can I overwrite my old aliases and variables as default?

A "Do you want to overwrite this alias/variable" question or somthing would be even better.

I tend to amass a lot of garbage aliases/variables which I end up error-searching for when a script suddenly don't work because I've got a variable with the same name elsewhere.

Enchanter Joined: 20 Nov 2002 Posts: 627 Location: USA

I could think of a few ways to do this but all would be very anoying.
When making a var or alias it should overwrite any in the same class as it.
However if you have b var in a class a and a b var in class c then I can see the confusion.
Your talking about a catalog so you don't accidently write the same var or alias.
Two small ways to keep track......

Don't make the same var or alias
When making a class name like #class mystuff
give the var or alias a name like MyA or MSa or MyB or MSb
to keep it all simple.

The other is to create a database either a var or a real database to keep track of it all.

Good luck

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 698

I tend to browse the main folder quite a lot while scripting. Sometimes I just put everything I'm doing in there for simplicity. When I finish creating whatever I've been working on, I create a subfolder and move the settings into it.

When I find that multiple settings are being created when I only intended to change or modify an existing one either directly or through a script, I delete the setting in the subfolder and move the new setting from the none class, into the appropriate subclass. This almost always ensures that future changes modify the correct setting.