diff --git a/picard/ui/options/scripting.py b/picard/ui/options/scripting.py
index a5d5c341b..a7cf972b5 100644
--- a/picard/ui/options/scripting.py
+++ b/picard/ui/options/scripting.py
@@ -70,11 +70,24 @@ class ScriptingOptionsPage(OptionsPage):
         TextOption("setting", "tagger_script", ""),
     ]
 
+    STYLESHEET_ERROR = "QWidget { background-color: #f55; color: white; font-weight:bold }"
+
     def __init__(self, parent=None):
         super(ScriptingOptionsPage, self).__init__(parent)
         self.ui = Ui_ScriptingOptionsPage()
         self.ui.setupUi(self)
         self.highlighter = TaggerScriptSyntaxHighlighter(self.ui.tagger_script.document())
+        self.connect(self.ui.tagger_script, QtCore.SIGNAL("textChanged()"), self.live_checker)
+
+    def live_checker(self):
+        self.ui.script_error.setStyleSheet("");
+        self.ui.script_error.setText("")
+        try:
+            self.check()
+        except OptionsCheckError, e:
+            self.ui.script_error.setStyleSheet(self.STYLESHEET_ERROR);
+            self.ui.script_error.setText(e.message)
+            return    
 
     def check(self):
         parser = ScriptParser()
@@ -91,5 +104,4 @@ class ScriptingOptionsPage(OptionsPage):
         self.config.setting["enable_tagger_script"] = self.ui.enable_tagger_script.isChecked()
         self.config.setting["tagger_script"] = self.ui.tagger_script.toPlainText()
 
-
-register_options_page(ScriptingOptionsPage)
\ No newline at end of file
+register_options_page(ScriptingOptionsPage)
diff --git a/picard/ui/ui_options_script.py b/picard/ui/ui_options_script.py
index 26b8178ac..9cbc82bc5 100644
--- a/picard/ui/ui_options_script.py
+++ b/picard/ui/ui_options_script.py
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 # Form implementation generated from reading ui file 'ui/options_script.ui'
 #
-# Created: Sun Jan 13 17:42:15 2008
-#      by: PyQt4 UI code generator 4.3
+# Created: Tue Feb 24 22:56:42 2009
+#      by: PyQt4 UI code generator 4.4.4
 #
 # WARNING! All changes made in this file will be lost!
 
@@ -12,37 +12,28 @@ from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
 class Ui_ScriptingOptionsPage(object):
     def setupUi(self, ScriptingOptionsPage):
         ScriptingOptionsPage.setObjectName("ScriptingOptionsPage")
-        ScriptingOptionsPage.resize(QtCore.QSize(QtCore.QRect(0,0,222,228).size()).expandedTo(ScriptingOptionsPage.minimumSizeHint()))
-
+        ScriptingOptionsPage.resize(605, 377)
         self.vboxlayout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout(ScriptingOptionsPage)
-        self.vboxlayout.setMargin(9)
         self.vboxlayout.setSpacing(6)
+        self.vboxlayout.setMargin(9)
         self.vboxlayout.setObjectName("vboxlayout")
-
         self.enable_tagger_script = QtGui.QGroupBox(ScriptingOptionsPage)
         self.enable_tagger_script.setCheckable(True)
         self.enable_tagger_script.setObjectName("enable_tagger_script")
-
-        self.vboxlayout1 = QtGui.QVBoxLayout(self.enable_tagger_script)
-        self.vboxlayout1.setMargin(9)
-        self.vboxlayout1.setSpacing(6)
-        self.vboxlayout1.setObjectName("vboxlayout1")
-
+        self.verticalLayout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout(self.enable_tagger_script)
+        self.verticalLayout.setObjectName("verticalLayout")
         self.tagger_script = QtGui.QTextEdit(self.enable_tagger_script)
-
         font = QtGui.QFont()
-        font.setFamily("Courier")
-        font.setPointSize(8)
-        font.setWeight(50)
-        font.setItalic(False)
-        font.setUnderline(False)
-        font.setStrikeOut(False)
-        font.setBold(False)
+        font.setFamily("Monospace")
         self.tagger_script.setFont(font)
         self.tagger_script.setLineWrapMode(QtGui.QTextEdit.NoWrap)
         self.tagger_script.setAcceptRichText(False)
         self.tagger_script.setObjectName("tagger_script")
-        self.vboxlayout1.addWidget(self.tagger_script)
+        self.verticalLayout.addWidget(self.tagger_script)
+        self.script_error = QtGui.QLabel(self.enable_tagger_script)
+        self.script_error.setAlignment(QtCore.Qt.AlignCenter)
+        self.script_error.setObjectName("script_error")
+        self.verticalLayout.addWidget(self.script_error)
         self.vboxlayout.addWidget(self.enable_tagger_script)
 
         self.retranslateUi(ScriptingOptionsPage)
diff --git a/ui/options_script.ui b/ui/options_script.ui
index 83a267ee3..d5c7e2459 100644
--- a/ui/options_script.ui
+++ b/ui/options_script.ui
@@ -5,17 +5,17 @@
    <rect>
     <x>0</x>
     <y>0</y>
-    <width>222</width>
-    <height>228</height>
+    <width>605</width>
+    <height>377</height>
    </rect>
   </property>
   <layout class="QVBoxLayout" >
-   <property name="margin" >
-    <number>9</number>
-   </property>
    <property name="spacing" >
     <number>6</number>
    </property>
+   <property name="margin" >
+    <number>9</number>
+   </property>
    <item>
     <widget class="QGroupBox" name="enable_tagger_script" >
      <property name="title" >
@@ -24,24 +24,12 @@
      <property name="checkable" >
       <bool>true</bool>
      </property>
-     <layout class="QVBoxLayout" >
-      <property name="margin" >
-       <number>9</number>
-      </property>
-      <property name="spacing" >
-       <number>6</number>
-      </property>
+     <layout class="QVBoxLayout" name="verticalLayout" >
       <item>
        <widget class="QTextEdit" name="tagger_script" >
         <property name="font" >
          <font>
-          <family>Courier</family>
-          <pointsize>8</pointsize>
-          <weight>50</weight>
-          <italic>false</italic>
-          <bold>false</bold>
-          <underline>false</underline>
-          <strikeout>false</strikeout>
+          <family>Monospace</family>
          </font>
         </property>
         <property name="lineWrapMode" >
@@ -52,6 +40,16 @@
         </property>
        </widget>
       </item>
+      <item>
+       <widget class="QLabel" name="script_error" >
+        <property name="text" >
+         <string/>
+        </property>
+        <property name="alignment" >
+         <set>Qt::AlignCenter</set>
+        </property>
+       </widget>
+      </item>
      </layout>
     </widget>
    </item>