I've no objection to the built in script editor (except when it bangs
out during debug) especially as I have just re-discovered that if I cut
and paste from it I get coloured text. However, I want to create a
document that compares Livecode script with VBA code and if I do a cut
and paste from the VBA editor I get plain text. I now realise that I
can put the VBA through textwrangler and into a Wp such as Bean with any
Livecode being inserted with a straight cut and paste.
Ah! Appleworks 6. Now it comes from a time when Apple were hungry and
software had to work whereas today it just has to look good - but please
don't get me started.
As to 'if I want to do script editing in VBA"- well I don't really its
just that have to ;-)
best wishes
Simon
On 04/04/2015 12:03, Richmond wrote:
On 04/04/15 13:18, Simon Knight wrote:
Richmond,
Many thanks - I will give textwrangler a try, I have used it as a
plain text editor but never really dug deep: I have down loaded the
"Revolution" add-in that you pointed me to and may have a try at
creating my own. The one thing I have not been able to do is to
directly export coloured text to a word processor. The Textwrangler
export option remains grayed out but I can get the text by printing
to preview and copy and paste from there.
best wishes
Simon
I'm not entirely sure what your objection to the built-in script
editor is; as a syntax coloured external editor is much the same sort
of thing.
However, having said that, I tend to use Appleworks 6 on my G5 iMac
running Mac OS 10.5 for editing large scripts where I need to
perform bulk search-and-replace operations.
Appleworks does not offer syntax colouring, but I use it mainly by
doing a copy-paste of an already finished script to modify it via
search-and-replace rather than programming per se.
If you want to do script-editing like Visual Basic (i.e. one long list
rather than lots of little lists in each object) then I suppose your
question begins
to make sense; the only real problem is at that point you lose the
WYSIWYG aspect that is so powerful in LiveCode.
Richmond.
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