colorize script bailout

[tech at paynesparkman.com]

6/1/2004 10:33:03 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

>tech at paynesparkman.com wrote:
> > Since I don't have a current license I haven't joined the yahoo
> > group and therefore can't vote.  I am actively monitoring your
> > progress through this list and appreciate your efforts.  When I
> > do get a new Rev license I will definitely be requesting an MC
> > license.  I'm curious where you came up with the number 28.
> > Is it the number of people who are members of the yahoo group,
> > the number of people subscribed to this list, the number of
> > people who requested MC licenses when they bought a Rev license,
> > or some combination of these?
>
>The MC IDE usage poll at the URL above looks like this:
>
>    Please select the choice that best describes your use
>    of the MC IDE:
>	
>    Choices                                          Votes
>    It's my primary work environment                    28 	
>    I jump back and forth between IDEs                   5 	
>    I mostly use Rev                                     3
>    I use it only for testing engine bugs                1
>    I never use it; signed in here just out of curiosity 2 	
>
>The MC IDE group has a total of 119 members,  with 39 having voted and 
>80 not voted yet.  Given the number of cases like yours (people who are 
>on this list but not at Yahoo), the actual number of people using the MC 
>IDE may be higher than the group membership.   But until they join the 
>group and vote there we have no way of measuring actual usage.
>
>Membership to the Yahoo group is free and only takes a minute to set up. 
>  There are many other interesting groups related to MataCard, 
>Revolution, and XTalk in general at Yahoo all well which become 
>available once you register with Yahoo Groups.

I went there, I joined, I voted.  You now have 29 "official" users.  I'm also currently playing with the current 
build.  I've tried out the plugins manager and I liked the fact that I could set it up to autoload the tools stack 
and the stack I'm currently working on.  I tried the colorize script option,  which I know is a carryover, and 
found a minor problem.  I tried it on my stack script, which is massive, and it took several minutes to 
complete during which I could do nothing with MC.  It did eventually succeed but, it's unlikely I'll want to use 
this feature on the stack script.  I could see myself using it on other smaller control scripts.  The problem is 
that colorize scripts is a global setting and if I forget to turn it off before exiting some smaller script then I'm 
hosed when I try to open the stack script.  I tried using Ctrl + . which quits the operation but leaves me with 
a blank script editor.  If I close the script editor and try to edit another script I still get a blank script editor.  
The only way to fix this is to shut down the IDE completely.  Basically, I'm wondering if there is a way to 
abort this operation more cleanly or to make it so that the problem doesn't carry over to another opening of 
the script editor.  In other words, maybe we can change something in the way the script editor is initialized 
so it clears this problem.  

Rich Mooney
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