Set Marker --?

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Mon May 1 01:34:34 CDT 2006


J. Landman Gay wrote:
> Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> In the MC IDE Script Editor's Edit menu there's an item named "Set 
>> Marker".  I don't see any code in that menu to support it.
>>
>> What does it do, and how does it do it?
>>
> 
> There isn't any code. I had suggested it to Scott when we were 
> discussing the revised script editor, but he never implemented it. I was 
> always surprised to see it was in the menus, but I think he forgot about 
> it.
> 
> It is supposed to set a line of commented script that you can jump to -- 
> something like the Rev "set bookmark" feature, but more similar to the 
> (I believe superior) way HyperCard used to do it. The commented string 
> always starts with a defined word, and the menu item would just do a 
> line search for a comment marker + the defined keyword, then scroll the 
> script to that point.

If you want to complete that feature I think it'd be swell.  Otherwise, 
should we just remove that menu item?

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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