Scripts get the File and Folder classes as built-ins of the script
engine. A script run from a file can test whether files exist, read
their properties, list folders with getFiles (a mask or a function),
and open files to read them with read, readln, readch, seek and tell.
- Reads stay inside the script's folder and, when automation read
roots are set, inside them too. A script given as text reads no
files. Network and device paths, and paths outside the folder by
their names, are refused before anything is looked up. Links and
junctions that lead out are refused, and getFiles leaves them out.
- The encoding comes from the byte order mark, then the encoding the
script set, then UTF-8 when the bytes are valid, then CP1252.
- Limits: 8 MiB a file, 32 MiB a run, 256 files open at once, 2,048
getFiles entries and 65,536 names looked at, and paths of at most
32,767 characters.
- Writing, the file dialogs and execute are not available yet: they
return false or null and set error.
The report's hostCallCounts gains fileCalls and fileExecutes.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
- The panel's report line gives a run without a clock as "time
unavailable", as script.console does, instead of "? ms", and shows the
slowest commands after "slowest:" as script.console does.
- "1 host call", "1 earlier line dropped" and "1 line cut" take the
singular in the panel and in script.console, and each catalog gives
its language's plural forms. The dropped and cut counts choose their
forms independently.
- A run whose state is gone still gets an end line: "stopped" when it is
abandoned, "internal" when the next slice finds it missing. Neither
adds a report line. The missing-run path in script_pump now also puts
the session's state back, as script_abandon does, so the next run can
start.
Scripts write to a new Script Console with $.write(...values) and
$.writeln(...values), each value as String(value) gives it. vc.log
entries, a run's uncaught error as name:line:column: message, and a
start, end and report line for each run go there too. The report line
gives the run's time, host calls and slowest commands.
- The console keeps at most 2,048 lines and 1 MiB of text, dropping the
oldest and counting what it dropped. A line is cut at 4,096 bytes and
a script's name at 256 bytes, with a count of cut lines. Line feeds,
carriage returns and CRLF break lines; other control characters show
as Unicode Control Pictures.
- script.run's result and scriptReport gain runTimeMs, timingAvailable,
hostCallCounts, slowestCommands and the run's own console. A failed
run's report has them too.
- script.console and script.console.clear read and empty the console;
ui.copyScriptConsole {first?, last?} copies lines as the panel shows
them.
- The panel lays out only the rows in view, selects with click and
Shift-click, and has Clear, Copy Selected and Copy All. Output goes on
while it is closed, and Clear works during a run.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/gaps.md, docs/roadmap.md,
docs/target-app-parity.md.
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