the ubiquitous Answer Dialog: was Scope Problem on Standalones

[Richard Gaskin]

David Burgun wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for this, but I can't help thinking - "Wouldn't it just be better 
> to fix the bug(s) in the answer command? That way we could all use an 
> inbuilt command to debug our code. I try to avoid custom debugging aids 
> if possible since they can cause subtle changes in the way the 
> environment executes and mask problems or cause new ones.
> 
> Is the code available for the Answer command? If so, I might have a go 
> at fixing it.

There are two options for this:  adding a horizontal scrollbar with the 
formattedWidth exceeds the available space, or altering the text engine 
so that it breaks on non-word boundaries.

The latter would require rewriting the text engine in Rev, so if you're 
looking for DIY solutions the scrollbar one shouldn't be too hard.

I recently rewrite the Ask and Answer dialogs for the MC IDE, and they 
were tedious but not too complicated. I can't imagine the Rev dialogs 
are much harder to deal with.  In MC all the code is contained in the 
stacks themselves; with any luck the same is true for Rev so you'll have 
no trouble finding what you needs.

If you enhance them it might make a good exercise to also make a patcher 
  as well, so folks could update their IDE if they choose.

And as Kevin has said here before, if you send a patcher to them they 
tend to roll changes into the IDE faster than with just a request.

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