Great. You figured out how to make the Help system work successfully.
Try Filtering the Dictionary and the Topics with"continue". I get
NOTHING here.
Working with Rev should not be a game: it should be easy to locate this
information. I'm happy that you were able to find the information. I
still feel that the fact that I was unable to find it is NOT because I
was lazy, but because the IDE continues to be half-baked.
Jon
Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:
At 3:20 PM -0400 8/18/2005, Jon wrote:
I'm sure the answer to this question (how do you continue a line in
Rev) is simple. Where could I have found the answer to this simple
question in the documentation? I looked for "continue": no joy.
"line": no joy. I looked at the Scripting discussion, and I know
know all about comments, but nothing about continuing lines onto the
next line.
"How to break a line in a script:
If a line of code is too long to be easily displayed in the script
editor, it is convenient to break it into more than one line for
display, while still having Transcript treat it as a single line.
You use the \ character to break a script line for display, as in the
following example:
set the thumbSize of scrollbar 1 to \
(the height of group 1/the formattedHeight of group 1)
When the above split line is executed, it's treated as a single line
of code."
The entry for "\" is also the first item returned when you search the
dictionary for "continue".
Writing documentation starts to seem kind of pointless when a large
part of its target audience presents convincing proof, often, that
much of that audience doesn't bother to read it.
(Admittedly, this is one of the places where an index would be really
useful, since you can set up an index to catch synonyms. On the other
hand, a search would have succeeded here. Will someone who won't
search use an index? Maybe, maybe not.)
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