Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

[Thomas McGrath III]

Bob,

I have been using Rev for 1 year now and although I have my frustrating 
moments with bugs, as do others, I am confident in Rev's pursuit of 
fixing the bugs that bother us all. They are releasing fixes in a much 
faster time frame and plan on continuing to do so.

I believe they are focusing on a couple of key areas and the editor is 
one of those. So your number 1. issue should be noticed soon enough.

As far as numbers 2. and 3.  I think that the formating will stay the 
way it works now. But with fixes to the problem areas. I agree that 
turning it off should do just that. A simple request. I would easily 
vote for this bug fix/UI enhancement.

Number 4. (not numbered) is the one I think that should be done sooner 
rather than later. It would let a newbie know that this is possible and 
maybe take a lot of the frustration out of dealing with the editor in 
the first place. I think the reason this thread got out of hand is not 
your post but rather that it opened a door to venting frustrations 
about all kinds of things and those frustrations are what started to 
get out of hand (IMO). Every one here seems to agree that we want to go 
forward and never end up where VB did and I fear where Director is 
going. I would vote for this enhancement request.

Yours,

Tom

On Jul 1, 2005, at 5:20 AM, Bob Warren wrote:

> 1. Existing bugs should be removed. The very fact that a newcomer 
> cannot
> easily see the difference between a feature and a bug shows that there 
> is
> something wrong somewhere. Bugs confuse everybody and everything.
>
> As Mark suggested in his e-mail to us all by suggesting that "it is not
> unreasonable to give users the choice":
>
> 2. Leave the existing auto-formatting facilities entirely alone.
> BUT
> 3. When the auto-formatting is turned off, it means what it says. This 
> means
> that changes to existing text can be made in the manner of a normal 
> text
> editor. TAB creates a single indentation in a single line.
>
> In addition, perhaps the switch for turning auto-formatting on and off 
> could
> be put in a more convenient place Also, descriptions of 
> auto-formatting and
> the (non-standard) use of the TAB key could be more prominently 
> displayed in
> the Help.
>


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