Rev Editor

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.

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tRev's Object Browser will now let you:

1. Drag an object in the Object Browser to re-layer it.
2. Shift+drag an object to clone and relayer it.
3. Double-click an object name in Browser to re-name it.
4. 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.

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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!

• 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.

• 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!

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The new Stats are illuminating:

You can use Stats to find out the following:

• Am I commenting enough?
• Do I have enough handlers to warrant a folder?
• Do I have too many handlers in a folder to be useful?
• How many actual lines of code do I have?

Would you like more white space in your code and object browser?

Click Plus to increase your line height!

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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.

NOTE: The Data/Message Broker is one of the components that has been updated, so  you will need to restart tRev after updating!

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After making this video, I made the Select Structure command work a little better on if structures where the then is on the next line. See what you think.

Also, if you try to put a go to command in a button's Raptor Handler, you'll find it will not provide you with a link. That command only becomes a link when you're editing a stack or a card. Same principle holds with toplevel...it won't become a link (and thus work) in anything but a stack object's code.

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NOTE: If you have the insertion point (or text selection) part way into a handler's code, and you click the handler's name in the handler list, you will see the bottom line of the handler selected rather than the top. This maneuver—as well as the others depicted above, works on Raptor handlers as well as the more ordinary variety.

The feature was added on Sun, Sep 6 @ 10:30AM CDT/US. You will need to Check for Updates in order to use it. You are not required to restart tRev to use this feature, but if you have not updated lately, you may want to restart it in case the message broker was modified in a previous update that you didn't have.

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