[ANN] Watch a video about a whole new approach to script editing

[Jerry Daniels]

Stephen,

Thank you for your kind words and helpfulness in responding to  
Robert's queries!

I'm speechless. I know, that's unheard of.

Best,

Jerry
http://reveditor.com - check out tRev The Movie!

On Jul 28, 2009, at 10:53 AM, stephen barncard wrote:

> I can step in here. T-Rev and GLX2 are two different products. One  
> does not
> need the other.
>
> T-rev is a radically different approach to editing scripts in Rev. The
> former approach, tapping into Rev's Editor hooks from standard Rev  
> windows
> running in the IDE can be a dicy, moving-target nightmare for an  
> outside
> developer, and I'm sure Jerry's run into name-space and messaging  
> issues
> among other things. Daniels and Mara should get some kind of award  
> for even
> attempting Galaxy and GLX2. I'm sure it was a long way from being  
> easy to
> accomplish - and thanks for doing it.
> But Jerry is a very smart and resourceful fellow, and he's been alway
> looking for other ways to do things, poking at this idea for a  
> while: Get
> out of the rev IDE namespace and 'remote control' the IDE by using a
> temporary plugin and sockets. Brilliant!  I never got the concept  
> editor to
> work for me a couple of years ago, but this TRev thing really rocks.  
> It's
> more like the zippy editor we had in Hypercard.
>
> T-Rev is to the point and just damn simple. And really fast.  
> Whatever Jerry's
> done here, it's a world of difference vs. any other editing tool for  
> Rev.
>
> Another great feature is .... Jerry Himself.. and the anticipated  
> discussion
> group that will go with the product. I'm sure a lot of features will  
> be
> added with the very frequent updates. So it's a living, breathing,
> continually updated application. Watch it being developed before  
> your eyes.
>
> At the same time, I'm sure he's going to keep the "feature-itus" to a
> minimum, to keep it lean. Most of the 'good stuff' is there now.
>
> And thanks, Jerry for the ongoing 'Chalkboard' motif...  (I'm  
> probably one
> of three people that asked for it in GLX2.)
>
> -------------------------
> Stephen Barncard
> San Francisco
> http://barncard.com
>
>
> 2009/7/28 Robert M. <rman at free.fr>
>
>>
>> Hi, what is not clear to me is how trev relates to GLX2 editor
>> -- what is common in the 2 prgrams, (I guess automatic completion)
>> -- what are function in GLX that have not been carried into Trex?  
>> (I guess
>> the debugger part)
>> -- what's added in tRev that is not in GLX? (I guess the visual  
>> inspector)
>>
>> what is the cope of use of both a the tools?
>> thanks,
>> Robert (user of GLX2)
>>
>>
>> Jerry Daniels-2 wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> We made a video showing it in action:
>>>
>>>    http://reveditor.com/trev-the-movie
>>>
>>> fo/use-revolution
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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