Announce: New Version of Navigator

[Geoff Canyon]

Some of you know Navigator well. Others have never heard of it. It's a 
plugin for Revolution that lets you easily do many things that are 
difficult otherwise.

  -- A brief introduction:

Navigator is a tool that lists the controls in your Revolution or 
DreamCard project. It's a bit like the Application Browser, but 
smaller, faster, and more powerful. Not as pretty, though ;-)

Navigator lets you edit the properties, custom properties, and scripts 
of the controls in your project quickly and easily.

Navigator lets you relayer controls simply by dragging and dropping 
them in the list.

Navigator lets you easily work with controls that aren't visible, are 
hidden offscreen, or nested three layers deep in a group. Navigator 
lets you work with any control anywhere.

  -- This Release:

This is the 3.0 alpha release. I'll update the web site when it goes 
beta. Until then, those who are interested can download Navigator at 
this URL:

http://www.mathfieldday.com/navigator.zip

The documentation is included in Navigator. Select About Navigator on 
the Actions menu and scroll down. If you're just curious, the 
documentation is also available here:

http://www.mathfieldday.com/navdocs.html

  -- Alpha Software

This is an alpha release. I use Navigator all the time, and it has 
worked well for me. In my use it is stable, useful, and non-harmful. 
Still, you should always keep backups of your work -- this is a good 
idea no matter what tools you use.

  -- New features in 3.0:

New Property List editor lets you edit the properties of the controls 
in your project in a simple list, which includes all the properties of 
the selected controls.

New commands let you easily rename, clone, or delete the controls in 
the list.

Now you can clone Navigator, showing two palettes at once with 
different lists.

Now you can search in the scripts of all the objects in the list

Now you can search all the objects in the list for the ones that match 
whatever test you devise

New copy and paste commands for controls make it easier than ever to 
move controls from one card to another, one stack to another, and 
perform other tasks like placing backgrounds, setting icons, setting 
windowshapes, etc.

There's much more, listed in the online documentation. Select About 
Navigator on the Actions menu, and dig in!

  -- Shareware

Navigator is $20 shareware. If you use it, please register it.


regards,

Geoff Canyon
gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com