Are scratch files still messed up? I remember tryi...

# getting-started

[MattF]

Are scratch files still messed up? I remember trying years ago and couldn't make any progress when depending on projects and/or external libraries. Today I tried and despite intellisense acting correctly with regards to import com.acme.Animal and val a1 = Animal("bobo") it does not run as says unresolved reference even with "use class path of module" set to containing project

[gildor]

It works for me perfectly fine for really long time, last year or two at least, with project dependencies at least (rarely add external libs which are not a part of the project)

[MattF]

just tried it from scratch. any idea whats wrong?

[MattF]

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[MattF]

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[gildor]

As I see your project is not synced

[gildor]

ah, on last one it's fine

[gildor]

wait, how do you run this scratch?

[gildor]

it's not scratch output

[gildor]

you running not main.kts file

[MattF]

i right click

[MattF]

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[MattF]

and then Run scratch.main.kts

[gildor]

you run scratch.main.kts directly

[gildor]

it's not related to project at all

[gildor]

it just does
kotlin scratch,main.kts

[gildor]

click here

[gildor]

Run on menu is runnit it as a file

[MattF]

wow, that works

[MattF]

thanks

[gildor]

or enable interactive mode, no need to run

[MattF]

whats happening when I right click and do the non working version?

[gildor]

also, you don't really need main.kts

[gildor]

I just use scratch Kotlin files

[gildor]

main.kts is nice when you run it as standalone thing, without IDE, as a script

[gildor]

> whats happening when I right click and do the non working version?
So, IDE detects that it main,kts file and uses default runner for it, which is just do:
kotlin script.main.kts

[MattF]

ah I see

[gildor]

if you click here (grey text) you should see how IDE runs it

[MattF]

thanks, much appreciated

[gildor]

I tracked progress of Scratch files for long time and now they work great for me, but now I'm slowly switching to #C05333T208Y and now again on square one, reporting bugs and wait them to be stable and fast 🙈

[MattF]

I thought notebook didnt work with K2?

[MattF]

ah wait that Kotlin worksheets, so many ways...

[gildor]

It's the same thing

[gildor]

it doesn't work with K2 yet

[gildor]

but usually it's not an issue until you use some specific K2 feature in your notebook, you still can rely on k2 code