How many people use Single-Handler Mode in Script Editor?

Martin Baxter martin at harbourtown.co.uk
Tue Sep 2 12:09:01 EDT 2003


I hadn't tried it until you asked, however it is something I might use
sometimes, except it has one or two shortcomings. I felt quite happy with
it because it was reminiscent of working in RealBasic.

FWIW my first impression was that if it just showed the complete handler I
might use it a lot. If a script contains a lot of exisiting handlers and is
long, text-editing can become unresponsive, and the single handler view
could be handy in that situation.

Trying to separate the globals, locals and parameters just seemed a bit
superfluous to me. I took a look at an initialisation script of mine that
declares 84 globals, needless to say they didn't all fit into the one-line
field ;-)

Another thing that I would criticise is that without the handler list
turned on, the view is actually quite cryptic - what are you looking at ?
how do you make a handler ? You type "on mouseup" for instance and then it
vanishes, but where does it go to ? From a beginner's point of view this is
actually an extra level of confusion I'd have thought.

martin

> Geoff Canyon asked:
>How many people use Single-Handler Mode in the Script Editor? How many
>people ever used it (maybe when getting started? How many people think
>it is useful for getting started with Revolution?
>





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