Confused about starting scripting?...

[willochill]

Hey so i just finished designing my first level in the hpl level editor, but i still haven't done any kind of scripting, so i wanted to get started on that and i read through the scripting tutorial in the wiki and it said that you need to have the map open in Amnesia when your scripting for the map in the editor.... this really confused me, mainly because i cant have amnesia running and go back to my desktop and do something else at the same time (i have a mac btw), second why would you need to do that, i mean i guess you could fix mistakes but like i dont think when youre walking through it testing it in Amnesia that anything would change unless you quit out of Amnesia and got back in amnesia after saving the map in the editor.. idk can u just explain this whole concept of keeping amnesia running for me? thx