Column Buttons + Better Clairvoyance
The Object Browser is about TEN times more useful, now!
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I ran out of time at the end of that video because Jing cut me off! I was going to say that clicking on a var name in tRev's Decoder now places the var's data directly into the clipboard. More importantly, when you hover over a var's data in the Decoder, tooltips appear telling you about this click-to-copy-data feature. BONUS: tooltips for var data also tell you when you already have a var's data in the clipboard!
Some anomalies you'll see in the lists below are fairly arcane and hard to describe. Some are hard to replicate, too. However, this doesn't mean they aren't aggravating if allowed to persist!
List of Enhancements
Auto-complete:
- Handlers dependably auto-complete after return.
- After a multiline auto-complete or carriage return, text now scrolls into view, if insertion point is lower than bottom of field.
- Clairvoyance is much faster — I've been unable to accumulate text in front of insertion point as I type.
- Auto-complete works reliably when calling recently-created handlers.
- Auto-completed switch control structures now have "break" statement within the case statement.
- Block comments that are not Raptor handlers no longer get transformed into Raptor handlers when you type a carriage return within them.
- Auto-complete is no longer case-sensitive, meaning you can type in any case you wish and it will figure out what you're trying to type. NOTE: once you accept an suggested string, if it is a Rev term, for the time being it will become lower case.
Coding:
- Typing control+space (both platforms!) when the pointer is outside the tRev editor window will pick up the full name of the object below the pointer and insert into any active field. Add the shift key and it does same but inserts the short name of the object beneath your pointer. This has always been the case. Read on.
- Typing control+space when the pointer is inside the tRev editor window now picks up the text beneath the pointer and inserts it into the active field. Hold down the shift key and get the quoted string instead of the word within the quoted string. This is great for copying a handler name from the handler list into your code—or from elsewhere within your code to the selection/insertion point. Bonus: copy stuff from your code into find field!
Error handling:
- The code field (not its text, but the object) is no longer selected after some errors.
- Execution errors occurring while in edit group mode no longer lock up tRev in a repeat loop.
Raptor handlers:
- When Raptor handler property values are implicitly changed from something you do in Rev, you are no longer asked if it's ok to overwrite when you edit that object's script and it's already open in a tab. Bottom line: the bug is fixed.
- basic.properties are now inserting properly from the Edit menu item call, under all circumstances—even if you already have --> *props at the top.
Decoder:
- When opening the decoder or definitions pane, the selected code is no longer obscured by the decoder or definitions pane.
- Variable and array element data can now be copied by clicking var or element data—all of which are now links.
- When links to var or array data longer than 42 chars (or containing a carriage return) are clicked, they now open a special variable data dialog that displays full data available for selecting and copying with mouse and Edit menu shortcuts.
- Stack file names containing commas no longer confuse the Decoder as they do in the Rev 3.5 debugger.
- The < and > chars no longer show up in the Decoder pane as their urlEncoded values.
Tabs
- Closing an inactive tab no longer activates the tab to its left by default.
- Every object edited in tRev now gets a tRevUniqueID that is the sum of the object's revUniqueID and ID properties. This means your last position and selection within an object's code is now stored under a new record id and your old positions are no longer used. No big deal.
- Tabs are now tagged with tRev's new, unique ID to prevent object ID dysphoria where the Overwrite this script? dialog appears when it should not. This is a big deal.
General:
- Many more actions are now undoable. Eventually everything will be undo-able, but not 12 layers of undo/redo. I'm too fond of typing quickly in large bodies of code to do that.
- We now have much more reliable restoring of last position in script
- Handler links to recently-created handlers appear reliably, but only after compiling the code.
- When inspecting from Rev with opt+cmd click, editor no longer resizes to bottom right of screen.
- You can now select and copy any text residing in the Errors, Decoder or Definitions panes.
Screens
Click variables in the Decoder to copy them into your clipboard:
Click variables with truncated data and get the new Decoder dialog that lets you select data with your mouse and/or Edit menu shortcuts:
The components containing these fixes are now available. Check for Updates or click the Updates Available link in the lower left of the editor.
New tRev with In-line clairvoyance, auto-complete & tab management
Check out tRev's new, more economical workflow for clairvoyance and auto-complete. Click to believe...
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Using the new stuff:
- To begin using in-line clairvoyance, just type. It starts working three chars into a word (actually, a token).
- To auto-complete an exit, pass, command, function, property or global property, just type command+k.
- You can do the same to complete any handler, repeat, try or switch structure.
- When you close a stack in Rev, any objects belonging to a tRev tab are closed. If a closing tab is dirty, tRev asks what you'd like to do.
Notes:
- As far as script editing goes, tRev is extremely useable.
- I've had NO crashes or lockups in Rev since using tRev!
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