Veiw Range - Basic Assistance

[mawk]

Anyone familiar with Near Fantastica's Veiw Range script (http://www.rmxp.org/forums/index.php?topic=26662.0) could probably tell you of a great many ways in which it can be used. Of course, I'm not familiar with Veiw Range, which is why I'm making this desperate plea for help.

In essence, I know nothing about it. Right now, this is the particular spot of trouble I'm having:

Alright, so after the discovery of this script I've been attempting to make a ghost chase the player (using an Approach move route and a Battle Processing event upon Event Touch.) Everything seemed fine and dandy; I would have the ghost move idly at random until the player came within its range of vision (five.) At that point, self-switch D would snap on and the ghost would suddenly change its movement patters from Random to Approach, and increase a bit in speed and frequency. I attempted this via this parallel-process script call:
$view_range.enemies_view(002, 5, "D")

When I got within five whatevers of the ghost (EV002,) though, everything went dark and a chorus of angels sang unto me:
"Script 'Game_Switches' line 32: ArgumentError occurred.
comparison of String with 5000 failed"

So, yeah. Lolwut? I'd love to hear just how this happened, and how I SHOULD orient the switches and scripts, or if I SHOULD at all. Many thanks!

 

[regi]

Hmm... not exactly sure, but you probably should change the coding to:
$view_range.enemies_view(2, 5, "D")

If that doesn't work, it's probably the script. One version of this script doesn't support self-switches, only switches. DerVV made some changes to this to be able to use self-switches. Unfortunately, that was on the RMXP Universe forums, which are down for some reason.  :-\ If all else fails, you can also go here for the earliest version of the script, which uses self-switches too, but doesn't include the BGS part.

 

[mawk]

Ah, thanks. I figure it's not worth the trouble, though; turns out Seph's got a script that does exactly what I'd intended anyway, and without so much hooplah.