Although not apparent from the video, you can also move and copy handlers via drag-n-drop when you have your handlers sorted. You do not need to be in non-sort mode to use this feature, but, since your handlers and folders are sorted, you can only drag-n-drop to folders. You cannot, of course, drag a folder in when your folders are sorted...nothing would happen.

All that notwithstanding, I think we'll see more of you good folks turning the Sort handlers column button off, now that it's so easy to move handlers and folders around.

• New Preference: Archive when Saving. Check it. Otherwise, no archiving for you.
• Close a main stack in the Object Browser, and it is now removed from the Stacks column without your having to refresh it in any way.
• Deleting a group in the Object Browser's Controls column deletes the entire group from Revolution. No surprise, there.
• NOW deleting a group also removes the group's children from Controls right away—without your having to refresh the controls by clicking the parent card in the Cards column.

For some bizarre reason, I suddenly seem to be channeling Telly Savalas.

Double-clicking the object type ("grc" for example) or a neutral area of the highlighted line (where there's no text) will result in editing the control's code. As before, depressing the shift key while double-clicking in these areas will open the object's property inspector in Rev IDE.

FIXED: Double clicking the number of lines of code in an Object Browser line item will not edit the name of the object. Instead, it will edit the code.

Use your keyboard to the max!

To edit, accept changes and navigate the Object Browser, type the following:

• command+return to edit the name of an object if you're in browse mode.
• command+return while editing to accept the edit and return to browse mode.
• enter while editing to accept the edit. (cmd+return if no enter key)
• return to accept the edit and edit the next line (if there is one).
• down arrow to accept the edit and edit the next line.
• up arrow to accept the edit and edit the previous line.
• tab to accept the edit and edit the next line.
• right arrow at the end of the edited name will accept the edit and edit next line.
• left arrow at the beginning of the edited name will accept the edit and edit previous line.

The Hat Trick

With inline editing you can name your label fields and set their content at the same time:

Step 1

Step 2:

Step 3:

Bonus: if you type shift+return to accept the edited name of any field, its new name will appear as its text content.

Why doesn't the Revolution application browser do all this?

The developers of the Rev IDE have to worry about what version of the engine you're running. This precludes using some of the newer features like the new drag and drop messages and the formattedTop property--all of which make allow us to do relayering and inline editing in tRev's Object Browser.

tRev can run the most recent engine and never worry about the IDE, since it runs in its own application partition. That means you don't have to worry about the IDE, either!

 

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