Rev Editor

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!

You should click below to...

• Search tRev Support Site... Help menu item
• Definitions expanded with more synonyms
• Select Structure now supports every weird form of IF-THEN-ELSE you can imagine
• Backspace, return key now dependably trigger their object's dirty flag
• go to and toplevel commands now supported in Raptor Handlers

• Auto-complete within Raptor Handlers (def., special tRev block comments)!
• Auto-complete custom properties in any handler (includes Raptor handlers)!
• Select Structure lets you find the beginning & end of any structure.

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2009-09-18-ff.mp4 (15391 KB)

• Repeated Select Structure commands select the structure within which the currently selected structure resides.
• When Select Structure reaches the handler level, it selects an extra line at the end so you can copy or cut the handler with an extra line feed.
• When starting out your Raptor handler, the names basic.properies and custom.properties will auto-complete.
  • Cmd+k will auto-complete the name.
  • A second cmd+k will auto-complete the entire handler !
  • This is consistent with the way auto-complete works for any other handler or control structure.

• Setting properties from special Raptor Handlers is now faster and works well in the Decoder mode as well.
• The basic.properties for fields now includes the text property. This is the number one thing folks want to do with labels.
• The basic.properties for stacks now includes resizable. Why we have liveResizing and not resizable on Rev inspector's basic properties pane is incomprehensible by the human mind. (Aliens?)
• Properties shown in Raptor Handlers that have values inherited from an owner are shown in brackets. (See image below.) When these values are clicked, they display the actual property value of the object (not its owner).

• A pernicious bug that didn't let you change the short name of an unsaved stack (or substack) via Raptor Handlers has been fixed.
• The above bug also made it impossible to compile an object that was open in a tab when its stack owner was unsaved (or a substack) and had its name changed via a Raptor Handler.
• This bug was not easy to explain or replicate, but thanks to Sarah, I found it and fixed it.

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raptor.2.mp4 (13555 KB)

Now you can quickly build a customized property editor for each or any object with a few keystrokes—and it's built right into tRev's code editor.

Start using it now!