Feature idea: auto-complete typing in scripts

[Ernst M. Reicher]

Hi Karl,
first I love MetaCard
but the scriptingEditor is really a little outdated
obviously is Scott working hard to keep pace with other featurewishes and
gave the fancy UI-part to revolution

I tried to familiarize with revolution several times - but its too funky -
to overloaded
there are a lot of good features but.....:-(((
and they have something like you are looking for!
probably you are thinking of something like in VB??????

what about things like -
- oups what OS are you working on??? -
typeIt4Me or quicKeys on Mac
shortHand on Windows??
but somebody has to write the "library"....

Regards,
          Ernst



----- Original Message -----
> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 11:19:39 -0500
> Subject: Feature idea: auto-complete typing in scripts
> From: Karl Becker <karl at karlbecker.com>
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Reply-To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
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> I'm not sure if this is possible to write a script that would do this
> (it's definitely not possible very easily, I don't think), but wouldn't
> it be great if, while editing an object's script, you could simply type
> in the first couple characters of a variable name and the entire word
> would be automatically filled out for you, just as URLs are
> auto-completed in web browsers now?
>
> If a script could somehow keep track of the unrecognized words in a
> script (those that aren't reserved by MetaCard) and then figure out when
> you've typed in the first letter or two of a variable name, then
> autocomplete the rest of the word (while keeping it highlighted so you
> could easily change the auto-completed part, just like in a web
> browser)... boy, would that be useful!
>
> Has anyone ever done anything like this?  Ever attempted to?  I'd
> imagine a script could simply be put in the script editor stack
> somehow... but I'm a bit chicken to attempt this all by myself  :-)
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> http://www.karlbecker.com
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