On 09/16/2015 11:35 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
Hello,
from time to time I read here about using external editors (with LC 6.x).
I am completely missing how the workflow looks like with an external editor,
which is not integrated into the IDE. No instant testing, no debugging, etc.
Do you really copy and paste the code vice versa for testing? Am I something
missing on how to integrate ext. editors or what sense does it make?
Tiemo
Well, my limited experience has involved copy-paste into Appleworks 6
on a PPC Macintosh (where I do all my commercial programming) just because
I can see the code in a full-screen [think G5 iMac with a monster-size
monitor]
without all the usual LiveCode 'furniture' in the way.
Obviously that is a very simplistic way of doing things, and Appleworks
is quite
unable to automatically colourise the script being edited within it.
What I understand from what is going on on the Use-List is that there
are several
ways to 'magically' flip scripts in-and-out of LiveCode and into an
external scriptEditor
that has a 'module', 'plug-in', 'what-have-you' that colourises the code
in accordance
with the LiveCode built-in scriptEditor colourising convention.
The ONLY advantage I have found was when editing a script that contained
some 6,000
lines of repetitive sections that didn't really need debugging.
Otherwise I stick with the built-in scriptEditor as it does all that I
require. Part of the reason
that the scriptEditor does all that I require, however, maybe the simple
fact that I have not
used any other programming environment for at least 12 years so I am
completely out of touch
with script editing facilities in other programming environments.
Richmond.
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