Okay, so I'm new at this. I don't pretend to know enough about Apo
scripting to solve these problems, or about the program itself.
However, I am finding it extremely difficult to learn due to the
differences between Apophysis and its Java port.

For reference, I am using Mac OS X 10.5.5 on a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2
Duo MacBook.

First, whenever I create a new blank flame and try to edit the
transforms, a new white transform by the name of "Final" creates
itself and causes the changes I make to the other triangles not to
take effect. This phenomenon does not appear to happen in any other
case (such as the tutorials I've been reading to try and figure this
out), so I'm inclined to believe it's a quirk of the Java version.
Also, this appears to happen regardless of how many transforms I use,
but it does not occur when I create a new random batch.

Second, I have so far been unable to successfully run even a single
script from any of my download resources. I get errors referring to
"Invalid assignment left-hand side (Line 0)" and other such
peculiarities. That error message is the most common (and a pretty
neat trick, considering that there IS no Line 0), but I have also
gotten a complaint about a missing semicolon, also on Line 0, and a
couple of other problems that I forget offhand. This makes it either
incredibly difficult or outright impossible to follow several
tutorials or to use even the basic script-based functions that are
supposed to be included with the program.

Is there a way around these problems, or is it just a built-in
inferiority of the Java version?

~Jacob VanDeGraaff (qloktheinvincible@...)