Preference for Keeping Saved Empty Button Scripts Empty

[Alex Tweedly]

Why not just use Sublime Text editor, with Levure to allow you to use an 
external editor?

(or plug in to that system to allow other external editors to be used)

Other than the fact that I can't get the 'linter' to work (and I know 
that'll just be me doing something stupid and wrong :-),  it seems to 
give everything I could want in a text editor - just takes a bit of a 
learning curve.

-- Alex.

On 21/06/2017 19:18, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote:
> I like the idea of going even another step further, and having macros that
> we can use.  An example from another tool I use adds the ability to add
> structures (e.g. if-then-else, repeat, etc.), and even being able to hilite
> text and have the macro do something with the text, for example
> someContainer is empty
>
> Hilite above, choose the macro (right-clicking or from a button in the
> header), choose custom if-then-else macro, and the hilited text is replaced
> with
>
> if somecontainer is empty then
>
> else #not (somecontainer is empty)
> end if #somecontainer is empty
>
> and on the blank line between the "if" and the "else", the insertion carat
> is placed, waiting for the next thing to be added.
>
> Ya know, if we had a crowdfund we could put up a bid for this and already
> have the money set aside to assign it...
>
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> Mike Bonner wrote:
>>
>>> Perhaps a different direction here?  I think it would be helpful to me
>>> as a perpetual newbie to have the option to insert common scripts on
>>> demand.
>>> Maybe a context sensitive dropdown with a mouseup framework for
>>> buttons, for fields, textchanged, keyup, keydown.
>> HyperCard:
>> <http://www.loper-os.org/wp-content/hypercard-calc/hc23.jpg>
>>
>> SuperCard:
>> <https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KeLdv70h3G4/maxresdefault.jpg>
>>
>> and even MetaCard:
>> <http://www.metacard.com/mcsnap2.gif>
>>
>> ...all provided popup menus in the Script Editor to insert handler
>> outlines and more.
>>
>> SC's was based on templates that included a tag for specifying the
>> insertion point - very handy for modifying/extending them.
>>
>> That sort of guidance can go a long way in helping newcomers more readily
>> understand the scope of messages they can respond to.
>>
>>
>>> Maybe backed by a personal snippet library so that once one creates
>>> their perfect script for entering only floating numbers.. or whatever,
>>> make the handlers snippable so that they can be added to a local
>>> repository for that object type.
>> Extensibility would be very valuable.
>>
>> --
>>   Richard Gaskin
>>   Fourth World Systems
>>   Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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>>
>>
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