"Script Hanging"

[Ellie]

Hi, I know I've been requesting a lot lately, but here's my request:

Is there any way of changing what it says when it says "Script Hanging"?

 

[Yeyinde]

You can't change the actual text, but there may be a way around it. Ruby throws errors, so if you find out what kind of error it throws for that, you can rescue it and print a different text message. So look for the Exception subclass and go rescue it!

 

[Ellie]

Care to explain for a not-very-good-scripter?

 

[KhaoticErase]

The same thing happened with me and the Mode 7 script. All it was is that my map was far too large and it took so long to load, the game crashed.

 

[rataime]

Sadly this message doesn't seem to be a ruby exception, but an hard coded message in C, so you can't change it, unless you want to modify the dll.
Proof :

begin

  while true
  end

rescue
p "should show but doesn't"
end

However, you can prevent it from happening by throwing some Graphics.update distant of less than 10 seconds.

 

[Yeyinde]

Actually, rataime, the message is cause by a Ruby exception. The text is, however hardcoded. An easy workaround to change it.
So, here it is, just replace your Main with it. Then add your font stuff, as usual.

#==============================================================================
# ** Main
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  After defining each class, actual processing begins here.
#==============================================================================

begin
  # Prepare for transition
  Graphics.freeze
  # Make scene object (title screen)
  $scene = Scene_Title.new
  # Call main method as long as $scene is effective
  while $scene != nil
    $scene.main
  end
  # Fade out
  Graphics.transition(20)
rescue Errno::ENOENT, Hangup
  if $!.is_a?(Errno::ENOENT)
    # Supplement Errno::ENOENT exception
    # If unable to open file, display message and end
    filename = $!.message.sub("No such file or directory - ", "")
    print "Unable to find file #{filename}."
  elsif $!.is_a?(Hangup)
    # CHANGE MESSAGE BELOW
    print 'Oh dear. This script is compleatly crap so it froze up.
Tough luck, eh?'
  end
end

 

[rataime]

Interesting, but why doesn't my example work ? I thought rescue was supposed to rescue everything ?

 

[Yeyinde]

That's what a lot of people think. Using rescue with no arguments will only catch StandardError-based errors. To catch all errors, you must use Exception.

 

[rataime]

I see, thanks for the explanation !

 

[Me(tm)]

I see, thanks for the explanation !

It is actually in the helpfile. Though, I can't seem to catch SystemErrors?