Turn Off Double-Entry?

[Jerry Daniels]

Comments about your own experience are, of course valid.

Best,

Jerry Daniels

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On Apr 26, 2006, at 10:18 AM, David Burgun wrote:

>
> On 26 Apr 2006, at 15:59, Jerry Daniels wrote:
>
>> If I read this thread correctly, it isn't that the Rev IDE is  
>> untrustworthy, but rather that the second typing of an enter key  
>> closes the Rev script editor.
>
> Yes, bad UI design. It's not just that though, there are loads of  
> problems in the IDE, especially with the Script Editor.
>
>>
>> If basic development environments didn't have third party tools,  
>> they wouldn't last long. Third party products exist to enrich a  
>> platform, not because the underlying "standard" product is  
>> untrustworthy or un-useable. It's a matter of providing more  
>> choices, extending functionality and creating diversity--the  
>> hallmarks of evolution (or in Richard's case "Devolution").
>
> CodeWarrior didn't have any 3rd party tools that I ever used or  
> *needed* to use and CodeWarrior lasted a fairly long time! In  
> general I have nothing against 3rd party tools, but the "basic"  
> package should be able to handle basic things without falling over  
> or causing scripts to be corrupted or lost.
>
> There are a number of development environments I have used over the  
> years that didn't have 3rd party tools and they lasted a long time  
> or are still going.
>
>> We have Constellation (www.daniels-mara.com/products/ 
>> constellation.htm) users who have never used the Revolution script  
>> editor--newbies to Revolution, if you will. The same can be said  
>> of the Metacard IDE and Devolution (Richard Gaskin's IDE). There  
>> are also people who are using Scott Rossi's excellent tools  
>> (www.tactilemedia.com) and have never used the "stock" object  
>> alignnment and colorizing.
>
> Sure, but you shouldn't be *forced* to use them because the basic  
> package is not all it should be. Also, when a newbie buys RunRev  
> and starts to use it, depending on their past experience, they have  
> a big task to get their head around, a programming language, an IDE  
> and the whole MC concept. They really don't want to take on any  
> more at that time.
>
>> Jerry
>>
>> Buy Constellation from Runtime Revolution!
>> http://revstudio.runrev.com/section/revselect/constellation/
>
> I (and many others) already bought RunRev! Why should we have to  
> buy something else just to work around problems in the RunRev IDE?
>
> All the Best
> Dave
>
>
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