Popup Menus with Text Selection?

[Richard Gaskin]

Erik Hansen wrote:
> --- "Frank D. Engel, Jr." <fde101 at fjrhome.net>
> wrote: 
> 
>>I don't see a "focus with keyboard" option for
>>popups, but setting the 
>>traversalOn from a msgbox worked great!
> 
> 
> in Edit > Preferences you can choose between
> using actual Transcript terms like 
> "traversalOn" and descriptive phrases like
> "focus with keyboard".
> 
> i would be more descriptive, but spilling
> some papers on my keyboard apparently caused
> some kind of a static electricity surge or
> something and turned my screen grey,
> so this is from memory.
> 
> why a programer would 
> NOT (choose Transcript terms)
> is a mystery.

I'm sure that when someone from RunRev can find the time to participate 
in this discussion they'll be able to offer some additional background, 
but it seems that adding the choice to show either native Transcript 
terms or other more descriptive terms stems from a small handful of 
property names that aren't particularly user-friendly.

My personal favorite is "destroyStack", which does nothing destructive 
to the stack at all but merely purges it from memory.

Of course the simplest route would be to just add synonymous terms in 
the engine for such properties, possibly depricating less clear 
terminology for eventual removal in some future release.  In the case of 
destroyStack, for example, a natural alternative would be "purgeStack".

The Rev IDE was first developed before RunRev had acquired the engine, 
and making such changes to the engine was harder for them then.  But now 
that they own the engine as well this would seem a logical step in the 
direction of maintaining Transcript's ease of use, and hopefully steps 
are being taken in that direction.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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