Re: SE2b GUI comments->Abbreviations!
Re: SE2b GUI comments->Abbreviations!
- Subject: Re: SE2b GUI comments->Abbreviations!
- From: Philippe GRUCHET <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 02:30:54 +0100
From me:
To improve its usage, including more abbreviations than the single
'app' for 'application' would be really useful.
Some examples:
act activate
AS AppleScript
char character
chars character
[snip]
From: Kai <email@hidden>
There could be a trade-off here, Philippe. I imagine the longer this
list of synonyms, the fewer options we'd have for variable/handler
names. (Rightly or wrongly, I've used quite a few of those
abbreviations in my scripts.)
Sorry for the ambiguity.
What I mean about abbreviations is keywords as they can be optionally
typed before checking the syntax, and not at all as a list of new
synonyms.
Well, a good trade-off could be a dozen of abbreviations instead of 1.
Just a little example:
tell app "Finder" to act
-- when checking the syntax, keywords are expanded:
tell application "Finder" to activate
I don't think that a such list of abbreviations would reduce the
variable/handler names options.
From: has <email@hidden>
An "as-you-type" autocomplete feature in the editor might be
practical, however. Worth considering?
Do you mean a word prediction feature to further speed up typing?
I remember this feature in FutureBasic...
I don't think it's makable with the AS language only, but it would be
an excellent tool for scripters, if anyone's interested?
Kind regards,
Philippe Gruchet/SVM Mac
VNU Publications France
http://svmmac.vnunet.fr
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