[OT] Re: [ANN] tRev's new 'decoder' now showing...video is up!

[Jerry Daniels]

I don't really think the breakpoint terminology will hurt and it does  
help with cross-editor considerations, etc.

Code is all about text, afterall.

Best,

Jerry Daniels
Watch tRev - The Movie
http://reveditor.com/trev-the-movie

On Aug 25, 2009, at 8:15 PM, Brian Yennie wrote:

> Jerry,
>
> I was thinking more of an inline image than the Rev "dot" next to a  
> line. It would occupy a line of its own. Doesn't make much of a  
> difference to me, but seemed like an alternative to the concerns  
> about terminology. For example:
>
> on mouseUp
>   put 1 into someVar
>   BREAKPOINT #1386243
>   doSomething
> end mouseUp
>
> would become:
>
> on mouseUp
>   put 1 into someVar
>   ===============> #1386243
> end mouseUp
>
> Where the "=============>" is an actual image.
>
> Basically, it was just a middle ground between changing the name of  
> breakpoints and going back to red dots =).
>
>> Brian,
>>
>> Have you ever noticed the dots in Rev's debugger? How, if your  
>> script has very many lines at all, the dots can't keep pace with  
>> scrolling, returns, etc.? I have. Not pretty, to say the least. So,  
>> no images floating around for me, thank you.
>>
>> Also, keeping a separate array of breakpoints and keeping them in  
>> sync with the actual code is not easy in a world where tRev is not  
>> the only script editor. I used to have lots of these sorts of  
>> "proprietary" approaches. It always came back to bite me in the  
>> behind when people traded code with others or used more than one  
>> editor.
>>
>> So, a couple years ago, i decided to use text to indicate a  
>> breakpoint. Easy to see, easy to delete, follows the code wherever  
>> it goes, never gets out of sync. It's all good. Now that we've  
>> added record id's as comments following the word "breakpoint", we  
>> can attach loads of data to a breakpoint.
>>
>> I'm warming up to the idea, too! I think everyone needs to buy the  
>> product now!!
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Jerry Daniels
>> Watch tRev - The Movie
>> http://reveditor.com/trev-the-movie
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