[ANN] beta release of altXray plugin for Rev 3.0

Chipp Walters chipp at chipp.com
Fri Sep 5 18:31:10 EDT 2008


Just want to share a tool I've worked on to help make 3.0's script editor
work better for me.
altXray is a plugin for Rev 3.0. It works best with altPlugin Toolbar.
http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/altPluginCover/About.htm

It helps Rev in a number of ways:

Outside Script Editor
- Shows the name of the control the mouse is hovering over
- Ctrl-Alt edits the script of the control the mouse is hovering over
- Shift-Ctrl-Alt edits the properties of the control the mouse is hovering
over
- Ctrl-Alt over the stack Titlebar edits the script of the stack
- Ctrl-Alt over the very right of the Titlebar edits the script of the card

Inside Script Editor
- Right click on function or handler name in a script jumps to the function
or handler within the message hierarchy-- opening up script tabs if
necessary. This is very useful if you use script libraries.

It's pretty simple, does NOT change anything in Rev and can be turned on or
off by clicking a checkbox in the small palette.
Option clicking altXray puts it (floating) in the main Rev toolbar (WinXP)
or just docs in on Mac.

This has not yet been tested much on a Mac, so feedback would be helpful.

To install is, just type into the message box:

go URL "http://www.gadgetplugins.com/altplugins/altXray.rev"
then immediately save to your altPlugins folder.

Next refresh your altplugins toolbar (click the small blue arrow on the top)

If you don't have the altplugins toolbar, you can put it in the regular
plugins menu, but make sure it opens as a palette (or alt-click it after
opening it, which will also palette it.)

Like most all of our plugins, this is not a *supported* plugin. Use at your
own risk!

Note: if you use GLX2, then none of this is necessary as all these features
and much, much more are available in GLX2.
http://daniels-mara.com/glx2/

-Chipp



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