WOW!!!
THis Thing is so incerdibly f.....g great, i cannot believe I ever
worked with something else.
Tried it for 2 hours now and already completely in love with it!
Thanks a 100 bunches for pointing me to this incredible tool!
Next thing is I will write a tool that exports my structure into the
syntax as well as my library methods!
WOW!
OK, back to work :-)
In case you have not heard, Ruby on Rails (RoR) <http://
rubyonrails.com/> is getting a lot of attention in Web Development
circles. It is a neat environment, but basically the same kind of
Models, Views, Controllers structure as Fusebox. Both require some
(maybe a lot) and study to become useful.
One of the interesting statistics on RoR is that the the majority
of the developers are using Mac OS X! When someone posted a
question asking why this was the case - the majority of the
responses were "TextMate..." <http://macromates.com/>. TextMate is
a Mac only text editor that is still maturing, but....
As a long time user of BBEdit, I reluctantly took Doug Hall's
advise and played around with TextMate this weekend. I've tried
jedit and fortunately I don't need to do cross platform editing
(and would retire before I would!). I'm sure jedit is a great
development environment for Active4D, but I couldn't get past all
the non-Mac-like stuff and new terminology.
After about 10 hours of playing with TextMate, trying to understand
it's language formating, project views etc., I think I might be
convinced to move from BBEdit.
Much like jedit, it has project view, language formating, macros
and what they call snippets that will auto-complete a section of
code based on a keyword and tab action. Works fine for ruby, html,
javascript, php, etc. But what about Active4D? If I understood
RegEx, I'm sure I could of done this a little faster, but I've
created a rudimentary Active4D Bundle (where all the language stuff
goes) for TextMate.
For instance I created a snippet "whilenot", that if you type
"whilenot" followed by a tab would produce:
First Record([])
while (not(end selection([])))
# code...
next record([])
end while
and will position the cursor in between the table brackets on line
1. After putting in the table name and tabbing, it puts the table
name in the other table name locations and then highlights the "#
code" for further editing.
As I said, this is just a start and by no means complete - or
probably correct! I did steal the Active4D keywords and commands
from Aparajita's jedit xml file. I'm sure I'll update it, but if
anyone is interested in this early version, it can be found at
<http://maxwellgaggle.com/salex/textmate.zip>. The zip file
contains 1 theme and 2 bundles that go in ~/library/application
support/TextMate. There is a demo of TextMate at the above site.
Upon opening your first .a4d file, select HTML (A4D) as the file
type/bundle.
Now, if someone can speak RegEx, they maybe able to make TextMate
sing with Active4D - I just got it to carry a tune. By using
regular expressions in the bundles editor, code highlighting, auto-
indention, etc. can be much more thorough than with other editors
I've seen.
Regards,
Steve Alex
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