On Oct 12, 2004, at 3:21 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Erik Hansen wrote:--- "Frank D. Engel, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:in Edit > Preferences you can choose betweenI don't see a "focus with keyboard" option for popups, but setting the traversalOn from a msgbox worked great!
using actual Transcript terms like "traversalOn" and descriptive phrases like
"focus with keyboard".
i would be more descriptive, but spilling
some papers on my keyboard apparently caused
some kind of a static electricity surge or
something and turned my screen grey,
so this is from memory.
why a programer would NOT (choose Transcript terms)
is a mystery.
I'm sure that when someone from RunRev can find the time to participate in this discussion they'll be able to offer some additional background, but it seems that adding the choice to show either native Transcript terms or other more descriptive terms stems from a small handful of property names that aren't particularly user-friendly.
My personal favorite is "destroyStack", which does nothing destructive to the stack at all but merely purges it from memory.
Of course the simplest route would be to just add synonymous terms in the engine for such properties, possibly depricating less clear terminology for eventual removal in some future release. In the case of destroyStack, for example, a natural alternative would be "purgeStack".
The Rev IDE was first developed before RunRev had acquired the engine, and making such changes to the engine was harder for them then. But now that they own the engine as well this would seem a logical step in the direction of maintaining Transcript's ease of use, and hopefully steps are being taken in that direction.
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----------------------------------------------------------- Frank D. Engel, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
$ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual
$ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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