On 5/9/12 8:27 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
1. The native editor is stable, but has oddities that annoy, like that unnecessary double-enter compile-and-close window thing, or the lack of a charcoal motif, that is easier on the eyes of the myopic. I couldn't get the stack-wide search to work. Navigation is still a struggle on big projects. And I'd like to be able to open a second window to compare code. But none of the editors do that. This editor has worked basically the same since 2001.
I think you can get close to what you want in the native editor, with the exception of #1 which I wouldn't like to see change. The MC editor compiles and closes immediately on Enter (though you can use Cmd-L to compile without closing.) I'm usually working on a script and testing as I go, and I don't want to keep re-opening the script for each change. So I guess that part is subjective. I could have sworn there used to be a keyboard combo to both compile and close the editor in one go but I can't find it now.
Charcoal motif: You can set the background color of the editor in prefs. I guess if you want to change the text color to white you'd need to set that in the main template, which I'm having trouble locating right now. I think this may do it:
set the textcolor of fld "script" of grp "editor" of stack "revNewScriptEditor" to "white"
Stack-wide search works for me, I use it often. If you can describe what didn't work maybe we can figure it out. There is one known glitch; the bottom pane with the results doesn't display completely after the first search. You have to resize the window the first time; then it pops into view and stays there.
Navigation: I do it via the App Browser. I always keep it open, it's the fastest way to jump around. Double-click any card in any stack and there you are. I also like that I can edit the script or properties of any object from there, regardless of whether I'm currently on that card or even in that stack.
You can open more than one editor window. Right-click on the script's tab in the editor and choose "move to new window".
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