ARE YOU SERIOUS REV TEAM? MAJOR SCRIPT EDITOR ISSUES

[Trevor DeVore]

On Apr 9, 2005, at 4:12 PM, Peter Armstrong wrote:

> Thanks Trevor, the external edit in BBEdit seems to
> work nicely!  At last I can relax and get down to
> understanding Rev and not worry about my code.  An
> excellent addition (Transcript terms) to BBEdit.

You might want to look at using BBEdit Glossaries.  You can create 
mouseUp, mouseDown handlers, if/then, repeat loops, etc. or just a 
generic glossary entry which creates a function or command from the 
selected word.  This saves a lot of typing.

> Thanks Alex (?) at Mindlube for the great MLXEditor,
> seems to be the conduit necessary between Rev and the
> outside world. Great!  Nice and easy, works perfectly
> as far as I can tell.  Maybe Rev should build
> something like this in to the IDE?

It would be nice if Rev added support for 3rd party editors in the 
future as part of the package but for now Alex has a plugin that does a 
great job.  I use BBEdit for just about everything I do and so I've 
become proficient with the BBEdit way of doing things.  Not having to 
switch between different editors makes me much more efficient since I'm 
not having to switch modes if you will.  I also like to command tab 
between my applications in Rev and my scripts in BBEdit.  I think it 
keeps things a little less cluttered.  I only open up the Rev editor 
when I need to debug (hold down the shift key while opening a script to 
by-pass BBEdit and open the script in Rev).

> Is there a way to turn OFF storing the custom property
> formatted script?  Surely this bloats out the stack
> considerably and from what I can gather (and guess by
> my loss of data) may have other issues... just to make
> the scripts look pretty (pretty wild if you turn on
> default script colorization!).  I’d opt for the plain
> Jane version if it saved all the other issues.  BTW
> thanks Trevor, script colorization in BBEdit works
> perfectly and is actually useful.

If you turn off script colorization and formatting and don't edit your 
scripts in Rev then I don't think the script gets stored by Rev since 
you are opening and editing in BBEdit.  I could be wrong about this 
though.  I use Chipp's plugins and I don't think my stacks ever have 
script bloat when using altClean.

Rev is an excellent development tool.  It has quirks and that can 
sometimes be a hassle, but I feel that I have been the most productive 
I've ever been using Rev.  It really puts a lot of power in your hands 
and for that reason I'm willing to deal with the quirks.


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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com