I agree with Paul - I would really like to have a full set of text
editor features available to me (find/replace, "tidy", validators,
etc.) Undo/redo would certainly help, but would probably still leave
quite a few of us wanting the features of a full text editor.
The issue of setting ports is interesting - it would be really cool to
be able to do the "hackety-hack" standalone text script for a full
beanshell, but how well that might work (and for what audience) would
depend in part on the execution.
Just my $0.02 -
Andrea
On Mar 30, 2009, at 6:54 PM, taverna-users-
[email protected] wrote:
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:15:45 +0100
From: Paul Fisher <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Taverna-users] Feature request
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
When I first strated ot use Taverna i was under the impression that
the
BeanShell editor was just the same as any other java based editor.
But, in 1.7 it's not. There is no testing functionality, debug
console,
text highlighting, auto-completion of braces, *line numbers*, method
look-up.... etc. I think it is these points that people want - i.e.
the
stuff a full text editor would give you.
regards,
Paul.
Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote:
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:27, Wim De Smet <[email protected]>
wrote:
I haven't used the T2 editor much yet, but from experience in T1
this would
probably be easiest for me. Most of the time I ended up editing
the code in an
external editor anyway, and then pasting it in verbatim so I
didn't have to
worry about losing edits if I closed the wrong thing, or losing
undo/redo
history.
Note that if the main problems with the beanshell editor is the
undo/redo, then as Alex has pointed out, this has been solved in
Taverna 2.0, where Ctrl-Z (or Cmd-Z on OS X) does the textual undo,
pressing "Cancel" will just close the dialogue without applying the
changed script, and even if you did press "OK" you can press do
Edit->Undo to restore the original beanshell as if you had pressed
Cancel.
Except for the Edit->Undo it should be possible to pull in these
changes for the editor in Taverna 1 as well, as it's just a matter of
using our patched version of jEdit. (from the LGPL-branch):
<dependency>
<groupId>net.sf.taverna.jedit</groupId>
<artifactId>jedit-syntax</artifactId>
<version>2.2.2-taverna-2008-11-28</version>
</dependency>
Andrea Wiggins
PhD Student, School of Information Studies
Syracuse University
337 Hinds Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244
[email protected]
www.andreawiggins.com
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