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This area of the Wide Bay region has been impacted again. I am very fortunate that this home is well above flood level … although my backyard does get to calf level and doesn’t run off as well or as quickly as I would like it too. 2011, 2013 and 2022 have shown that the weather pattern is changing … so climate change is gearing up and we must learn to live with it. The bulk of this country’s habitation is the eastern side of the Great Dividing Range and that is quite often responsible for the run off that impacts the cities and towns. … :’-(
Last week was a real trial for me Carole with my pc and internet issues. I worked on it for a couple of days and it appears that the issues has resolved. I am ready to tackle Lesson 12 and would definitely appreciate a breather to catch up … so don’t rush my friend, enjoy your mini break. 😉
Hi Carole. Yep I can access this forum and Creation Cassel. It is only from my Bigpond email that I am unable to access your videos. I get as far as the page to put in the code and then the error page appears. I have discovered that there are many Telstra NBN customers who are less than happy with the service. I will give them a call tomorrow. Apparently it has something to do with the Spamhaus Project! Go figure … we never know what goes on behind closed doors do we? I will keep you posted my friend. I still have access to Suz’s pages … but it is just not the same. 🙁
Hi Carole … I am getting this same error message when I try to access the lessons even for past lessons that I was able to get onto previously. My email addy is with bigpond and this is where the error message hails from. I have accessed a couple of them through YouTube and can get onto those particular lessons through YouTube History. Unfortunately I have not viewed Lessons 12, 13, and 14 on YouTube as yet. Do you recognize what the issue could be? I still have access to Suz’s lessons but I like to work with them in conjunction with your videos. Thanks Carole, very sorry to be such a pain. 🙁
Thanks dear Cristina. I work with PSP2022, Suz’s page and Carole’s video at one and the same time. Carole has given us a couple of shortcuts that are not on Suz’s pages. Funny how something you think is wrong can just slip through. Always learning dear friend, always learning… 😉
You are a star Cassel, thank you so much. Again I have learnt from a mistake but this time it would appear to be a good mistake! ;D
Hello Friends. I have had a lapse in memory here and have forgotten where this print command comes into the scheme of things. Mine is highlighted in red and Suz’s is the blue. I would appreciate the input because I never got an error in the SOP and it all worked out as it should including both takes on the print command. Just a tad confused … ;-()
Image and SOP for Lesson 11 … I must be learning something, this one did not seem as intimidating, LOL! 😉
You are a sweetie for us Carole. I love your videos and coupled with Suze’s lessons they are a guiding light. Thank you my friend. ;D
I do agree with that dear Cristina and it can take days. I have my day planned around my study and then one thing after another gets in the way and the day goes by with only part of the lesson completed! It is such as sense of achievement when the lesson is completed and the tests that go with it are completed too. I am hammering away with lesson 11 so … with a teeny weeny bit of luck … I will have completed 11, 12 and 13 before Carole sends through 14. I think I will feel like I could wear a crown for the day when that happens, LOL! You are doing beautifully my friend and it is a joy to see your posts and read your input as well. Thank you. ;D
Well I have finally completed Lesson 10 … for me it was a doozie. Cassel, I am ever so grateful for your videos and, for me, since the beginning of this course I have recognised that I need to ‘see’ what it is that I need to do. With your videos I can physically see the scripts and understand where the command needs to be placed. Suz’s lessons are very thorough and I do enjoy them but sometimes I am not seeing where the command needs to go and I get lots of error messages. Of the 4 types of learning skills mine is definitely visual with auditory a close second. I tend to skim read/write and as for kinesthetics … well guess they are way down the line.
Here are a few of my results from Lesson 10. 😉
Dear Cristina … we are definitely learning from our mistakes. But, even though there is a lot of hair pulling going on the learning curve is tremendous. I am so glad I am not alone with this dear friend and Cassel is a terrific help. I really am loving these lessons. I hope to have caught up by the time Cassel releases her lesson 13 … please keep your fingers crossed for me. I am also learning from the interaction between Cassel and other potential scripters including yourself … some little tip always seems to leap out! ;D
I am very happy to wait for that snippet Cassel … I need a rest from text for now, lol! I am looking forward to the day when I have the confidence to do my own scripts for personal use. Still got lots to learn about PSP though. ;D
Dear Cassel … you are a life saver. I don’t feel so stupid now. I will take you at your word and text will be sitting on the back shelf unless I absolutely have to use it in a script. Thank you so much, you have put my confidence back on course … for now, at least, LOL!
Ah Cassel … it all had to do with pixels and points! What I wasn’t seeing was that the script was adjusting to points accordingly and then I was adjusting it back to pixels without taking notice of the pixels/points word. I didn’t understand why … when I was using pixel size to create the script … the recorded script was saving it as points. Sometimes I was getting a teeny weeny word you could barely make out and other times the text was huge and off to one side … needless to say hair pulling just didn’t cut it! I have saved the “good” script so that I can gaze upon it now and then as a reminder that working on mistakes (although it slows me down) is one of the most satisfying ways to learn … even if it means sacrificing a bit of hair, LOL! I was telling it to do something wrong and it was acting accordingly.
I am way behind in the lessons but my aim is to do a lesson a day – 9, 10, 11, 12 – which should bring me up to date by the time lesson 13 is on it’s way. ;DI had let challenge 4 of lesson 8 defeat me but I was determined to conquer it. I have probably done more revision on this lesson than any of the others! Lo and behold! … this morning I nailed it! The text editor finally understood what I was talkin about (if you put things in the right place of course!). I am thrilled so I am off for a cuppa and a bite to eat and then I will revise lesson 09 and start on 10 and hopefully 11! Thanks for takin a peek my friends.
I’ve missed you too Ann. I try to sneak in here on the odd occassion but the scripting course has totally captured me. I have kind of put myself back in school … getting on here around 8am and closing down about 5pm. I need lots of revision to get the lessons to sink in and that is what takes up most of my time. Maybe one day I will actually write my own script to share with you all. Carole’s scripts are just amazing though and now that I am getting a bit of an idea of the work that actually goes into a script I am amazed that Carole sells them so cheaply … she is a sweetie. 😉
Dear Cristina and Carole … you are right it was the indentation. I had not allowed the bottom scroll bar to come all the way back to the left. If I had I would have seen that the print message was not positioned correctly. Such a teeny thing with big hair raising consequences, lol! Still, lesson learned and it is a new day so time to move on with the tutorials. Possibly will not make that mistake again … mistakes are always the biggest learning curve. Thanks my friends, very much appreciated. ;D
Well, I am way behind at the moment. I completed Lesson 9 and found my comprehension was lacking with a few things so decided to do revision again. How hard could it be thought I … well let me tell you, I think I fried my brain in the past few days! I seemed to forget where commands were to be positioned in the scripts which is why I wanted to do some revision again. Lessons 1, 2, 3 … a breeze and then came lesson 4 which I had completed successfully on October 9th. It didn’t seem to matter where I placed the print command it would not show in the SOP. One of my favourite lessons had been the escape sequences and in the last couple of days it had me almost tearing my hair out. The image below shows the SOP from 3 scripts – the first successful one on the 9th – a failed one from this morning – then finally the second successful script this afternoon. I did not do anything to change the script from this morning except for reading it through again and again and running it time after time. If any of you can see a difference between the script from this morning and the one from this afternoon I would truly appreciate your input. The one from this morning puts the printed statement at the top of the script which is quite inappropriate. Thanks in advance dear friends. 🙁
Aargh … my nemesis! I excelled in most subjects at school but I was a math dummy especially when it got into those algebra equations.
I think it was math that was responsible for most of my youthful migraines, LOL! Loving the lessons Carole … they are sure taxing these old brain cells! ;DHi Trish, lovely to see your happy smiling face around here again. As for the sympathy sentiments … they are both adorable and suitable. Both are quaint and I love lace but I think I lean to the misted image. Lovely work dear friend. ;D
Hello dear Friends. I’m here to let you know that I have not deserted my post. As you are probably aware I am doing the Scripting Course and … yes, it is intensive and we are only into the very beginnings of it! LOL! I am loving it just the same and I wanted all of you to know that I love and miss you. To use Arnold Schwarzenegger’s catchphrase … I’ll be back! ;D
Still here Carole. I really want to crack this scripting in PSP. I find it very stimulating. I had the same issue as Cristina in the History palette but understood it better when you explained to her … thanks dear Cristina for posing that question. I am hoping to finish lesson 08 today so that I won’t be behind when 09 comes out. ;D
Hi Carole, I didn’t get lesson 8. I checked in my junk folder but it was not there either. The internet has been a real pain recently so perhaps that has something to do with it. In the meantime I will just continue with some revision of lesson 7 … a hefty lesson that one! ;D
Some more playing and revision. The screenshot of my SOP with all the gobbledegook is what it came up with for the pattern when I used an image of a crochet cape … funky or what! It gave me a bit of a jolt but I guess more of that is going to come. ;D
Dear Cristina, I did a similar thing … revision from lesson 1-4 up to and including lesson 1-6. And, like yourself I am really having fun. Doing the lessons over and over again has taken the anxiety out of the lessons and turned them in to a fun event. I am no longer afraid to play around with the scripts and lesson 1-6 produced an amazing result in the SOP and I will be posting a copy shortly. Loving it and having fun and thanks for your screenshot above … I just did a quick revision of that to make sure I would be able to find it again. Keep on having fun my friend. ;D
Cassel … thank you very much for having faith in us. You build our confidence brick by brick and it is definitely appreciated. <3
I’m hearing you Cyndi, lol! Frustration and laughs … what a combo … thank heavens we have Carole to guide us otherwise I would have no hair left. ;D
Carole, the ‘uncomfortable’ for me was using the print command to print a string of variables. I got there in the end but was a little fazed as to how sensitive it can be regards the placement of the comma and the period. It took several goes but with trial and error I got there … will I remember it … probably not but I will know that I can just play around and it will do no harm. I forgot to take a screenshot of it but I was really chuffed that I managed to get all five variables into one print command and then split them up using the new line and the tab escape sequences … it did look pretty, but that was probably because I had a win, LOL! The nasty little bug was that I had the period outside of the string at the EOL … apparently it needed to be contained within the string! You live, you learn. ;D
P.S. I did it again this morning and took a screenshot … quicker and not so scary now!!!
