Why aren't my custom scripts working in Paratext?

Question

I am trying to create custom scripts for use in Paratext. The problem is that they seem to be silently failing with no output. I have tried several different ones and there is no error message (sometimes a quick dialogue saying "running" and no output.) Here is the python code in my cm folder:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

print "TEST SUCCESSFUL"

print "This script is working"

print "Project: " + Project

And my code in the cms folder:

\check Simple Test

\subMenu TestScripts

\script SimpleTest.py

\description Simplest possible test

\toText

\utf8

Answer 1

The \toText option means that the script should be creating an output file.

If you change this to \toList (or delete the line since \toList is the default), the output will be shown in the list window.

The SampleScript.py file gives a larger example of a script.

Comments

Thank you! I got it working.