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Snapshots of your cards in Object Browser!

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Visualize Your Controls

  • Snaps are snapshots of cards shown in tRev's Object Browser.
  • Snaps can be turned on or off via a Column Button called Snap.
  • Snap buttons are beneath the Object Browser's Cards and Controls columns.

Get to Editing Faster

  • Click a line item in Controls to place orange rect around the control in card's Snap.
  • Click a control in a Snap and its line item in Controls list hilites.
  • Double-click any control in the Snap to edit it in tRev.
  • Hold down shift to inspect its properties in Rev.

Look, Mom—No Mouse!

  • Typing return or enter is the same as double-clicking a Snap's control.
  • Use the arrow keys to navigate the Controls list and work mouse-less.
  • Your mother will be proud. Fathers are harder to please.

Safety, Power, Convenience

  • When you click on a Snap to select a control, it cannot be moved or altered—only edited.
  • Click an invisible control in the list and you will see its rect in the Snap.
  • Click an off-screen control in the list and you will see its rect in the Snap if it's nearby.
  • Click a disabled control in the Snap and it will become selected in the list.

Gather Images for Documentation

  • Shift-click a Snap and it gets saved to your clipboard as a JPEG.
  • Entire image of the card is included with a gray 1 pixel border.
  • You'll get visual (flash) and aural (shutter sound) feedback indicating success.

Quick Keys

  • Single keystroke shortcuts for Object Browser are now called Quick Keys.
  • Quick Key for turning Snap on or off is p as in 'snap a picture' of a card.
  • Quick Key for Snap will not work unless Cards or Controls column is active.

Your Brain on Snaps

  • With Snaps you can use both sides of your brainspatial and analytical.
  • Anecdotal evidence indicate an effect approximating hedonic hypersynchrony.

Fixed This Week

  • After cmd+f, cut, copy & paste shortcuts work in Find and Replace fields.
  • Column button Delete now actually works after its warning dialog appears.

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Posted by Jerry Daniels 

Comments (6)

Nov 06, 2009
jsims said...
Very cool new feature, Jerry! Out of curiosity, how do you find the Easter Egg in the previous release?
Nov 06, 2009
Jerry Daniels said...
In the previous version (yesterday's) if you shift-clicked a line item in the Cards column of Object Browser, you'd start seeing snapshots of the card in the lower half of the Controls column.
Nov 07, 2009
Jerry Daniels said...
tRev updated 12:30 PM CST/US
- Find pane now shows/hides quickly
- After option key inspection, focus immediately returns to editor (this allows another option key inspection).
Nov 09, 2009
Jerry Daniels said...
tRev updated 2:30 PM CST/US
- Vista/Windows 7 version now has a close button on tRev editor window, provided you have the pref for Keep Editor Visible turned off!
- Caveat: tRev can only bring you back to Revolution if the IDE has a non-IDE stack open.
- This has been tested with 4.0-rc-1, but should work on earlier versions of Revolution.
Nov 11, 2009
joef said...
Awesome updates Jerry. Looking back now it's hard to remember why I originally invested in tRev. You've added so much value that it's gone ten times past my expectations for a "better" script editor. Snaps is truly lovely.
PS: Great video quality; legible text at about 400%.
Nov 11, 2009
Jerry Daniels said...
Thanks, Joe! Glad you're grooving on tRev.

I've got a BIG surprise for everyone on Friday. Something really new. Pertains to tRev, but lives in a different box.

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