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regenError message not displayed in dialog tooltip
brett_sutton
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I'm trying to modify the auto layout tool to improve the error messages and a few other issues.
I'm trying to use regenError to display a useful message in the auto tools dialog box. (e.g. when the title goes red you can hover to see the error details).
My reading of the documentation suggest that the error passed to regenError should be displayed as the tooltip, but no such luck.
I've tried a couple possible variants;
the original
// throw regenError(ErrorStringEnum.TRANSFORM_FAILED, ["cutSheet"]);
// variant one
throw regenError("Not enough doodads to create widget. Please select more doodads.", ["cutSheet"]);
// variant two
//throw "Cut sheet is smaller than largest part plus twice the spacing,";
// variant three
throw regenError("Not enough doodads to create widget. Please select more doodads.");
Variant three makes the most sense.
In each case the error message is not displayed anywhere, which isn't really useful.
What am I doing wrong?
Here is a version of the script:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/58809db1cb421510b0d6d758/v/3da0629ac699ec4f63aab012
I'm trying to use regenError to display a useful message in the auto tools dialog box. (e.g. when the title goes red you can hover to see the error details).
My reading of the documentation suggest that the error passed to regenError should be displayed as the tooltip, but no such luck.
I've tried a couple possible variants;
the original
// throw regenError(ErrorStringEnum.TRANSFORM_FAILED, ["cutSheet"]);
// variant one
throw regenError("Not enough doodads to create widget. Please select more doodads.", ["cutSheet"]);
// variant two
//throw "Cut sheet is smaller than largest part plus twice the spacing,";
// variant three
throw regenError("Not enough doodads to create widget. Please select more doodads.");
Variant three makes the most sense.
In each case the error message is not displayed anywhere, which isn't really useful.
What am I doing wrong?
Here is a version of the script:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/58809db1cb421510b0d6d758/v/3da0629ac699ec4f63aab012
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kevin_o_toole_1
Onshape Employees, Developers, HDM Posts: 565 
The issue here is that you're using an old version of the standard library, which doesn't have the version of regenError that takes a custom string (Auto layout was one of the earliest trials of using custom features, so that version is quite out of date!)
Eventually we'll have better workflows for seeing that FeatureScript imports are out of date and updating. For now, you can manually change the top FeatureScript version to 477, and the std import version to 477.0. When you do this, you'll also need to delete the "min" and "max" values from the bound specs defined in the Auto Layout Config tab (we've simplified how defining these works, so when upgrading we force you to use the new version).
The actual error produced in this case was "no overload found for function regenError(string)", which indicates that the library (the old one) was missing that function. In general, when debugging errors like this, you can always open the FeatureScript notices pane while in a Part Studio to see the full FeatureScript error with a stack trace. Stay tuned as well for an update which will allow to you see these runtime errors immediately in the Feature Studio!
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Eventually we'll have better workflows for seeing that FeatureScript imports are out of date and updating. For now, you can manually change the top FeatureScript version to 477, and the std import version to 477.0. When you do this, you'll also need to delete the "min" and "max" values from the bound specs defined in the Auto Layout Config tab (we've simplified how defining these works, so when upgrading we force you to use the new version).
The actual error produced in this case was "no overload found for function regenError(string)", which indicates that the library (the old one) was missing that function. In general, when debugging errors like this, you can always open the FeatureScript notices pane while in a Part Studio to see the full FeatureScript error with a stack trace. Stay tuned as well for an update which will allow to you see these runtime errors immediately in the Feature Studio!