It appears that on 8/15/99 7:40 PM, Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I've also heard of people adding a feature like this to the standard
>navigator or to custom navigators that let you choose a card by name,
>id, etc.
Done--I now have the navigator set to lock messages if the option key is
down.
>
[snip]
>date). But I personally really dislike both SuperEdit and PE because
>there's just way too long of a lag between when I make a change and
>when I can test it. This is one of MetaCard's biggest advantages over
>those other scripting languages that make you restart the whole app
>just to test your changes, and it's a productivity enhancer on par
>with having a high-level language and a direct-manipulation layout
>editor.
I, too, like the ability to make changes interactively. But when you're
slogging through pages of transplanted SuperCard code, it's nice also to
"just edit"--the last thing you want (this has happened to me twice now,
under different circumstances) is for some of your "demo mode" code to
suddenly decide it's time to quit, and bail you out of MetaCard, without
saving the changes you've made over the last hour. :-)
Thanks
btw--the SuperCard to MetaCard conversion is going very well, if anyone's
interested. There have been several situations where MetaCard's superior
capabilities removed the need for whole chunks of code.
gc
Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"C.D. Caterpillar teaches kids how to read, not how to watch cartoons."
