Killing one annoying feature in RR...

[Jan Schenkel]

--- xbury.cs at clearstream.com wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> While pounding on how to replace the script editor
> in RR, I found the 
> trick to remove 
> the most annoying feature in RR which is the
> uncontroled control-Alt or 
> (Control-Option on macs)
> which invokes the script editor...
> 
> How many times have you edited a script of an object
> unwilingly while 
> holding control-Alt?
> 
> 99.999% of the other IDEs and editors I've used use
> a CLICK to edit 
> something!
> 
> To fix this most annoying feature, you need to edit
> the frontscript button 
> "RevFrontScript"
> (double click it from the message box after showing
> the frontscripts.
> 
> Go to the bottom of the script,
> look for the line "edit script of the mouseControl"
> at the end of the handler revScriptEdit
> Just add "If the mouse is down then" before the
> "edit script of the 
> mouseControl"
> 
> Voila... 
> Now it still doesn't respond instantaneously because
> of the 
>    <<send "revScriptEdit" to me in 500
> milliseconds>> above...
> 
> Be my guest to replace that too!
> Changes are done at your own risk naturally! ;) 
> But it works like HyperCard again... 
> 
> Whoever thought of that feature deserves a cream
> pie! ;)
> 
> Cheers to rescripting the revolution 
> Xavier
> 

Hi Xavier,

Not to trounce your enthusiasm or anything, but you
can turn off that control-alt behaviour in the General
section of the Preferences.
It's one of the first things I turn off when I install
a new version. On the other hand, if you want it to
work only when clicked, your change to the frontscript
is indeed the solution.

Jan Schenkel.

=====
"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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