On 04/04/15 15:10, Simon Knight wrote:
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.
Why do you think about 8 months ago I bought a second-hand G5 iMac when
I had the money for a new Intel iMac running Mac OS Y ("Black Hills of
Dakota")?
1. Running 10.4.11 the G5 can run Mac OS 9 - and as, a while ago, I
invested a lot of money in 3D graphics progs. for Mac OS 9 I'd far
rather run them than pay for their successors.
2. Running 10.5.8 with 2 GB RAM it does almost all I need for programming.
3. AppleWorks will be my favourite office suite forever unless somebody
produces an exact clone than runs on Linux. It may not
have a million bells and whistles, but it does offer all I need, and
when compared with LibreOffice, Open Office, Star Office, Think Free Office,
MS Office, KOffice, KingSoft Office (yes, I have tried ALL of them), it
still looks better than all of them to me - probabaly because it doesn't
suffer
from feature bloat.
See answers to my other posting entitled "Please release me, let me go."
and ask yourself why, although I really DID like Macintosh computers
and the Mac OS, I didn't like Steve Jobs and his heirs, and their
non-backwards-compatibility way of thinking.
Richmond.
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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