Edit Edit the selected style using the style editor (see below). They are: New Create a new style, either in the storage or in the current script. One set for the storage and one for the current script. In the bottom part of the window there’s two almost identical sets of buttons The dropĭown menu at the top lets you choose what storage you want to view. Storage, others sort their styles by font, by show or alphabetically. Storages as you want some people prefer to keep all their styles in one You save styles and quickly import them into scripts. Style storages are used by Aegisub to let The right half displaysĪll styles that you currently have accessible in your currently loaded script It looks like this:Īs you can see, the window is divided into two halves. Various means of organizing, saving and editing styles. The styles manager #Īegisub’s styles manager tool (accessed from the Subtitles menu) provides Override tags the styles exist so that you won’t have to type outĪll the overrides for each line. The style parameters can be overridden with Message for each single step done with lots of variable dumps.A style in the ASS format is a set of typographic formatting rules that isĪpplied to dialogue lines. 5: “trace” Extremely verbose information about what the script is doing, such as a 4: “debug” Information meant to help fix errors in the script, such as dumps of variableĬontents. Something might cause a warning or error later on. 3: “hint” A tip or otherwise on how the user can improve things, or hints that 2: “warning” It looks like something is wrong and the user ought to know because it might 1: “error” A real error occurred so the user should expect something to have gone wrongĮven though you tried to recover. Note that Aegisub does not automatically terminate yourĪfterwards if you want it to. The following severity levels are suggested: 0: “fatal” Something really bad happened and the script can’t continue. String.format function for details on format strings. msg ( string) A format string specifying the message. Out (by entirely skipping it) the message will always be shown. level ( number) Severity level of the message. The user can control in Aegisub’s options the highest level messages that willīe shown. Sends a message to the message log, optionally with a specific severity level. The two names are synonymous you can use either name depending on your Blocking other input to the program to display something that mightīe irrelevant to the user can create a bad experience.

Please consider whether it’s really that important that the user sees your If a script shows a debug or other message, the progress window stays openĪfter the script has finished running until the user clicks the Close button. The primary support for script debugging in Automation 4 Lua is through sendingĭebug messages to the message log integrated in the progress window. The current execution will also return true. If is_cancelled returns true all subsequent calls to it in cancelled ( boolean) false if the user has not clicked the Cancel button, true if the user hasĬlicked Cancel. Rollback all changes and immediately end execution of the script. You should call this function regularly during long operations, and if it’s Tells whether the user has clicked on the Cancel button. title ( string) A format string specifying the title. By default this is set to the name of the macro running. This text should usually not change while the script Set the title of the progress window, which is is the large text displayedĪbove the progress bar. Progress bar showing what the script is currently doing. Set the “task” text in the progress window, which is the small text below the

Set the position of the percent-done bar in the progress window. You can use these functions to control what is displayed in it.

Progress reporting #Ī progress dialogue box is always shown when an Automation 4 Lua script is There functions are used to report various status and progress back to the GUI

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