Shortcuts in Script Editor with engine 3.5

[Tariel Gogoberidze]

On Apr 1, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Klaus Major wrote:



>> I noticed that with engine 3.5 the shortcuts e.g. the script editor
>> like CMD-M or "CMD-F"
>> etc. do not work anymore?
>>
>> The shortcuts are apparently directed to the "MC Menubar" and CMD-M
>> will open/close the
>> message box, CMD-F will open the MC "Find" dialog and NOT the script
>> find dialog.
>>
>> This did work with 3.0.
>>
>> Someone else noticed this?
>
> I only got one response to my important question, thanks Hugh.
> Could you please check this and give a short notice?


I can confirm (Mac OS X) that with latest 3.5 engine CMD-F in script  
editor now opens "Find" dialog and NOT "Script find" dialog.
BTW since 3.0 the "Script find" dialog is now NOT resizable and twice  
as long as it was before. While you are on this, can you please make  
it resizable again?

to take care of geometry you can do something like this..

-----
vertical min and max is set to 100
horizontal min is set to 200

script of card

on resizeStack x,y
   set the rect of fld "find Text" to 104,12,x-110,36
   set the right of button "find next" to the right of card 1 - 11
   set the right of button "done" to the right of card 1 - 11
end resizeStack
-----


Also, in current IDE we have..

-----
the script of card 1 of stack "MetaCard Menu Bar"

.........
   if the platform contains "Mac" then
     set the loc of this stack to the screenloc
   else
     set the loc of this stack to 320,67
   end if
   insert script of button "menuButton" into front
   insert script of button "newobj" into back
   if the defaultMenubar is empty
   then set the defaultMenubar to "MetaCard Menu Bar"
   if the platform is "MacOS" and char 1 of the systemVersion is "1"  
then
     set the textFont of this stack to "Lucida Grande"
     set the textSize of this stack to 13
   else if the platform is "Win32" then
     set the textFont of this stack to "Verdana"
     set the textSize of this stack to 11
   end if
.........

First, personally I don't think we should force "tool palette" to  
screenloc and second and most important, can you please change

  set the textFont of this stack to "Lucida Grande"
     set the textSize of this stack to 13

to

  set the textFont of this stack to "Lucida Grande"
     set the textSize of this stack to 11

which is default and more acceptable font size for Mac

-------

Jacque,

When I was doing 3.5 installation with your tool  
"metacard_setup.mc" (great stack and very helpful), I got script  
error on "revPathtoApplescript" function.

on displayOSXfolder pFolderPath,pAction -- open or close the Finder  
folder to force icon update
   put revPathtoApplescript(pFolderPath) into tFolder  -- <-- error


When I was using it,  no Rev IDE was running and it could not find  
the function around and throw the error

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>
> I need to know for the next release of the MC IDE and act accordingly
> if necessary.
> Maybe I will add some buttons and/or change the shortcuts or any other
> workaround
> if there is any.
>
> Hints very welcome! Thanks!

No hints at this moment but the goofy workaround would be to add the  
following mini handler to the script of card 1 of stack "script editor"

on commandkeydown x
   if x = "f" then
     send "doFind" && word 2 of the name of this stack & "," &&  the  
selectedtext  to stack "Script Find"
   else
     pass commandkeydown
   end if
end commandkeydown

In my brief test it reversed behavior to "normal"



>
> I already created a palette for the new datagrid and will relase this
> as a plug-in
> on the weekend


That's a great news, THANKS.



> (hopefully, since I have a gigantic cold, pass me the
> hankies...)

:(

>
> Later I will try to implement this into the properties palette but
> that may require that
> I make this palette a bit higher, from 208 pixel to 264.


> I think we can live with this

absolutely, but how difficult it would be to make it dynamically  
resize to 264 for Grid and back to 208 for other controls ?


> if I also make some changes to e.g. the
> field "Tooltip" so we
> can finally enter more than one line and maybe add a "antialias" for
> graphics.

NICE

Best regards
Tariel