lost features scripteditor 3.0

[Jim Ault]

On 9/7/08 7:27 AM, "Claudi Cornaz" <claudi.c at fiberworld.nl> wrote:
> The keyboard shortcuts for step [into] (spacebar) and step over
> (option spacebar) are not working anymore.
> This is quite severe 'cause now it's impossible to debug while the
> mouse is down, like in mouseMove.
You might try the following technique for debugging user controls and key
presses.  One advantage to this is that you can debug-step & change the
state of the globals using the variable watcher, thus always control those
values.

global gMseDn, gCntrlDn, gAltOptDn, gCmdDn, gShftDn

on mouseDown
    put 1 into gMseDn

   repeat loop
      if gMseDn <> 1 then exit repeat
        -- which works if you have changed gMseDn in var watcher

   end repeat
end mouseDown

on mouseMove
   if gMseDn = 1 then
      --do good stuff here
      
      --change gMseDn in var watcher to 0
      --    which is the same as mouseup
   end if
end mouseMove

on mouseup
   put 0 into gMseDn
end mouseup

on mouseRelease
   put 0 into gMseDn
end mouseRelease
--this is very similar to the allowDrag global variable
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Second issue is the color setting of the code lines: suggestion
use the comment character #  or  /

set the itemDel to comma           ### comma   ############
set the itemDel to tab                   ### tab   ##################

or 
set the itemDel to comma           /// comma   ////////////////
set the itemDel to tab                   /// tab   ////////////////////

Hope this gives you some ideas.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas

On 9/7/08 7:27 AM, "Claudi Cornaz" <claudi.c at fiberworld.nl> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I didn't have much time to put vers 3 through it's paces yet, but of
> course I was to curious to see what it would be like.
> I hope to get some more time for programming again the comming days.
>   (I still have to finish 2 films in the comming weeks but I will
> only be working a couple of hrs a day on these)
> 
> I like what I have seen so far, but there where 2 nasty surprises in
> the script editor.
> 
> The keyboard shortcuts for step [into] (spacebar) and step over
> (option spacebar) are not working anymore.
> This is quite severe 'cause now it's impossible to debug while the
> mouse is down, like in mouseMove.
> Because it's of course quite impossible to click on a button in the
> debugger and to keep the mouse button down at the same time.
> 
> In almost all my programs you need to drag objects or images around,
> so it's crucial for me to able to debug during the moseMove handler.
> I have a trackball and with a match I can lock the mouse button down.
> This way I can move the mouse around,
> without getting cramp in my fingers and "control" the debugger with
> the keyboard to step into, over or run.
> ( I always added the command space shortcut to choose run. This way I
> can realy focus on debugging
> the specific parts I am interested in, a couple of well placed
> breakpoints are all that's needed.)
> 
> Are there new short cuts or are they indeed lost?  That would really
> be a (unnecesary) shame if it wouldn't be restored.
> 
> The second unpleasant surprise was the loss of color. I don't mean
> script coloring (which I dislike: to much info for the value. it
> distracts me)
> but the ability to define a color to a word or sentence. For instance
> I use red for debug code. Visualy it's a  very vast way of
> finding parts in my scripts. I need to change the itemdelimiter quite
> often and I always set the line with that declaration to blue
> so whith a glance I can see where I set it and to what.
> I was just planning on adding a popUpMenu to the script editor to be
> able to work quicker and with some more predifened colors
> to mark parts in my scripts.
> 
> Probably this loss of color won't affect a lot of people so I guess I
> wil have to change my preference of working
> and find another way to define parts in my scripts.
> This will mean I will give GLX2 another try. This coloring was
> actualy my mean reason not to switch to GLX2.
> 
> I hope and guess that the rest of the vers. 3 experience will be a
> real pleasure.
> 
> All the best Claudi
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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