MC IDE - developer tool additions - sugggestion

[Richard Gaskin]

Good suggestions, Ian.

There was some interest last summer in seeing a forked variant of the MC 
IDE which supports this kind of workflow, but alas we've not heard from 
those who had expressed an interest in it for several months now.

Another option would be to provide this functionality in plugin, which 
could use a frontScript to appear and hide as needed when a script 
editor is open.

The advantage of putting those controls into a plugin is that it would 
then be universal:  with only modest effort it could work equally well 
in conjunction with Rev's script editor in addition to MC's.

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  Richard Gaskin
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Ian Gordon wrote:

> I had a MC IDE feature thought the other than that may be useful to 
> support developer productivity and help to develop more maintainable, or 
> at least commented code..
> 
> The proposed changes are simply to add a couple of controls within the 
> script editor window. Here's what I was thinking...
> 
> 1. Add a control (or just an option Click handler?) in the left column 
> of the script editor wd (where you set breakpoints) that would insert a 
> predefined comment line or hdr, as defined in a property somewhere..
> -- makes it easy to insert std code hdr's (main and tagged comment lines 
> with todays date?)
> 
> 2. On save (script) - write out the script to a file in cvs like tree 
> dir or file structure and maintain a lookup list (to build a display menu)
> 
> 3. Add a control (menu, list) (beside the help menu btn in the script 
> editor wd) that shows the various versions of this script available on 
> disk (those saved, along with simple specs like # lines, date saved, 
> comment, etc.?))
> 
> 4. When a version of the script is selected, pipe it to an xdiff program 
> (via the shell?) and your off to the races with a good diff program?
> 
> 5. Add a control or menu handler to script editor wd to swap versions of 
> the current script with a previous one selected in the pop up menu... 
> which would save the current script out to a version file and swap in 
> the selected script.
> 
> 
> Just some ideas that I thought I'd submit to the list for discussion...
> 
> The raw idea of course needs some more thought, but I think it could be 
> useful addition for sometime down the road.
> 
> 
> Ian