[Announce] Rev Navigator 2.5: Drag and Drop

[Geoff Canyon]

An update to Rev Navigator is now available at

<http://www.inspiredlogic.com/navigator>

The biggest two changes for this update are:

1. Drag and Drop support. This is a major advance. You can drag and  
drop to set the layers of controls or cards, move controls into or out  
of groups, copy controls, groups, or cards from one stack to another,  
and to place a group (background) on one or more cards.

NOTE: removing controls from a group and putting them back in might  
cause you to lose non-shared properties like the hilite and field  
contents. Use at your own risk.

2. Support for MetaCard. Change the file extension and open Navigator  
in MetaCard. It should take care of inserting the scripts it needs to  
function properly. This feature is still experimental, but seems to  
work pretty well.

Also added is a stack list view, a custom property menu, select stacks  
by pointing at them, rename bookmarks, and more.

For anyone who's not familiar with it, here's the note on Navigator  
when it first came out:
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Navigator is a plugin I developed to make it easier to work with  
controls, properties, and scripts in Revolution. There's too much to  
list in an email, but briefly:

  -- Navigator displays lists of Revolution objects: stacks, cards,  
groups, and controls.
  -- The list can show the controls on the current card of the topStack,  
or of any card or group of any stack.
  -- You can bookmark references to any controls, and color-code the  
references. You can mix and match bookmarks any way you like.
  -- Navigator allows you to edit scripts, set properties or run code  
against any list of objects. For example, you could select controls  
from several different stacks and set the visible of all the controls  
to false with one command.
  -- Navigator makes it easy to work with controls that aren't normally  
accessible: controls in groups, hidden controls, controls on hidden  
stacks, controls that are in different places, controls that are in  
palettes or non-modal stacks.
  -- Navigator allows you to do things you wouldn't ordinarily be able  
to do: align controls that are on different cards, for example.
  -- Navigator makes you a faster developer: edit the scripts of  
controls on different cards quickly and easily; change any property  
with a single menu selection rather than using a palette; go to the  
handler you want to edit in a long script with a single command.

Finally, I should mention that Navigator is, as far as I know, the only  
Revolution plugin that supports plugins of its own ;-) Text files with  
executable Transcript can be used within the Navigator plugin.

This is a beta release. Navigator should work on all platforms, with  
Revolution 1.1.1 and 2.0. If you have any problems, let me know.

<http://www.inspiredlogic.com/navigator>


regards,

Geoff Canyon
gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com