Re: Script Editor 2.0 beta 2
Re: Script Editor 2.0 beta 2
- Subject: Re: Script Editor 2.0 beta 2
- From: Tim Bumgarner <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:42:58 -0400
Here is a brief release note covering the Script Assistant. Hopefully
this will be helpful:
The Script Assistant is designed to help you complete and suggest known
terminology. It does this by caching terms it encounters when opening
dictionaries of scriptable applications (at least in the current form).
In the beta 2 release, you will need to open up the dictionaries of the
various applications that you would like to script. I would recommend
that you open up the dictionaries of at least all of the applications
in the Library window. This will be addressed in the final release such
that it will start with a comprehensive list of terms.
In order to use the Script Assistant, you need to enable it in the
Editing preferences pane. You may need to quit and relaunch the Script
Editor in order for the new terms in the cache to take affect. Once you
begin to type a known term, Script Assistant will auto-suggest any
unambiguous remainder of the term in a fifty percent transparent style
and any ambiguous portion with an ellipses "". In order to accept the
auto-suggested portion you can press the "complete" key. In Cocoa this
is assigned to the F5 function key by default. Currently there isn't
anyway to redefine this key from within SE2 itself, hopefully we can
address this before the final release. If the auto-suggest only
contains an ellipses, pressing the "complete" key will present a popup
menu that will contain all of the known terminologies that match the
portion known up to that point. You can use the up and down arrow keys,
continue to type or click on different items. To finish the popup menu
you can either complete the suggestion, or cancel it. If you don't want
to accept the auto-suggestion you can press the "cancel" key, which by
default is the "Esc" key. If you want to use the currently selected
suggestion, you can do any of the following: press the enter key, press
the right arrow key, or double click the selected item.
This is a new feature and still has work remaining and there are bugs
associated with it. Some aspects of this feature are likely to be
changed (hopefully for the better) before the final release. If you
find it causing problems for you, please turn the feature off and file
a bug report.
Thanks,
Tim Bumgarner
AppleScript Engineering
On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 09:42 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote:
On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 05:34 PM, Michael Grant wrote:
Weird. To clarify, if I have the Script Assistant active in Editing
preferences, <esc> effects keyword completion, but my return and
delete keys
don't work. Without the Script Assistant, there's no problem with
return and
delete, but naturally there's no completion either. I have not been
able to
reproduce the quitting bug Michelle described, but my cursor does
disappear
when I do the steps she indicated; it reappears if I press another
key.
Whereas I have no problem with the return or backspace key, the escape
key doesn't do anything. However, the enter key completes the keyword
sometimes.
BTW, if you type "stri" it completes as "strikethrough" from when you
type the t and any subsequent characters in that pattern, but if you
then type "n", instead of completing for "string", it doesn't show any
completion at all.
Script Assistant is not yet ready for prime time. I guess that's one
reason it's still beta software.
--Michelle
--
"Beware the march of ideas."
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