Popup Menus with Text Selection?

[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

I temporarily switched to show the transcript property name, and this 
still does not reveal a traversalOn for the popup menu.  Apparently 
this is an omission from the property window of a menu button?

On Oct 12, 2004, at 3:21 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> 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.
>
> -- 
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Media Corporation
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Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>

$ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual
$ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have 
everlasting life.
$



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