Bill Marriott wrote:
Well for reasons I may not be aware of, all the new commands seem to be in the format, "revDoSomething" followed by parameters. Example:revAddXMLNode treeID, parentPath, nodeName, nodeContents the official example: revAddXMLNode 9,"/","Balls","" Why couldn't you say something like add node "Balls" to the root path of XML tree id 9
These aren't really additions to Transcript. All the language elements that start with "rev" are actually scripted handlers stored in various Revolution libraries. If you poke around in the IDE scripts, you can find these handlers. They were written by Runtime to provide convenient access to commonly-used actions. For example, all the "revPrintWhatever" commands (revPrintField, revPrintText) were written to provide us a convenient way to do quick printing without writing a printing handler ourselves. "RevGoURL" is the same thing; if you look at it, you'll see that it in turn uses the libURL library, which in turn uses the native Transcript socket commands (which *are* part of Transcript) to do its magic.
Actual Transcript additions are added occasionally but rarely. In most cases, existing tokens are expanded whenever possible instead. Thus, we got new functionality recently for the "answer" command that allows Mac users to filter files the way Windows users do.
New engine-related behaviors will spawn new keywords with standard Transcript syntax. When image manipulation and embedded images in fields were first introduced, we got a whole bunch of new keywords to support those features.
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