January 27, 2010

Greater tRev-to-Rev interoperability and more!

Watch as I run through the new tRev features and enhancements noted below:

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You should click here to see the Basic tRev API in PDF format hosted on my iWork shared documents site.

You may have noticed a new link in the upper right of the editor window in the video above. The Latest Post link appears when there is only one open tab. It uses the Twitter API to filter my Tweets for ones relevant to tRev users. The mechanism for updating this link operates completely asynchronously, so it will not interfere with our normal programming (pun intended).

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Created by Daniels & Mara

December 18, 2009

Lotsa nice little stuff!

The incredible video:

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The amazing overview:

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Created by Daniels & Mara

November 20, 2009

Drag-n-drop your way out of relayering hell!

tRev's Object Browser will now let you:

Drag an object in the Object Browser to re-layer it.
Shift+drag an object to clone and relayer it.
Double-click an object name in Browser to re-name it.
Set the content of a label field WHILE you re-name it.

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Double-clicking has changed

To edit the name of a control listed as a line item in the Object Browser, you must double-click on the actual name of the control. Clicking anywhere else will edit the object itself.

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.

This is one of those processes that's MUCH easier to do than to explain. Keyboarding is the only way to do re-naming en masse.

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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Created by Daniels & Mara

November 13, 2009

tText - extend it with Rev-built plugins!

Here's the part I've been dying to tell you about...I especially like the segment in this Feature Friday (Nov 13) video where the plugin places its results in a new tab! It's my fav feature—and requires only a one line call to the tText API.

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The world's first text editor to use Revolution plugins!

That's right, kids...you can write your own plugin extensions to our great new text editor tText—do it right in Revolution! And there's a handy Plugin Manager that makes the process painless and super easy. It even opens your plugin in Rev for you. Just put tText next to the version of Rev you want to use.

Check this out:

Create, delete, rename and launch your plugin in Revolution via the Plugin Manager.
Add any existing stack to tText and start using it as a plugin, too!
Reorder your plugins via drag-and-drop to change the way they appear in tText's Plugins menu.
You get two sample plugins with the product. Code open and easy to mod.

Remember:

plugins are separate stacks—not substacks of the tText app.
Plugins are individual stack files residing in a folder.
Even the Plugin Manager is a plugin!

Three plugins are included with tText:

Our starting price for this great product is only $12 USD! But it won't be that low forever.

You should CLICK HERE to purchase tText. Take advantage of my temporary insanity.
This $12 is not a yearly license fee and incremental updates are included. New, big versions will have a reasonable upgrade fee.

We are shipping Mac and PC versions!