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From: cohill@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Andrew M. Cohill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Claris STILL Wants Feedback on On Line Help
Message-ID: <1914@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>
Date: 17 Jun 91 19:18:28 GMT
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In article <1991Jun16.214322.5870@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Eric.J.Baumgartner@dartmouth.edu (Eric J. Baumgartner) writes:
>
>Most of my need for HyperTalk help happens when I'm in a script.  Thank
>God it's not modal any more, but I think it'd be very nice to have a
>menu with all the commands, functions, properties, etc available. 
>(SuperCard and Director do this.  I like Director's Lingo menu better;
>it doesn't take up any window space.)  Choosing a menu item would just
>enter that item in the script (boring) but with Balloon Help on you
>could select the menu item and see its syntax, parameters, etc. 
>Possibly there would be a "Paste with parameters" option to enter the
>item with its params into the script.


 ScriptEdit does all those things.  It's a replacement editor for
HyperCard.  Costs about $65, and worth it's weight in gold.

>
>And while I'm talking about the Script Editor, how about a feature a la
>CMarker or THINK Pascal where you cmd-click the title bar of the window
>and get a popup menu of all the handlers and functions in the script? 
  
  ScriptEdit does have an object window that displays all the objects
(buttons, fields, cards, backgrounds, stacks) that have scripts, and you
can set filters to see some or all of them, or any combination.  


>Scripts need better navigation than Find.  Another cool feature would


ScriptEdit has a real grep.

>
>edit script of this card at "mouseUp"
>

Andy Cohill
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|Andy Cohill        cohill@vtserf.cc.vt.edu            VPI&SU