ANN: Text Wielder beta 1
ANN: Text Wielder beta 1
- Subject: ANN: Text Wielder beta 1
- From: Eric Blenkush <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:10:15 -0800
Hi,
Ive released the first beta of my application, Text Wielder, and there are a
few things it can do to help Cocoa developers so I thought I might be
justified in posting this announcement.
With Text Wielder you can create custom services. Ive written a few for
programmers which are included in the download, heres a description:
Selecting a Cocoa class(Java or ObjC) you can:
1. Have the documentation for the class open in Project Builder(not sure if
this functionality isnt already available in PB)
2. Have the documentation for the class open in your web browser from
apple.com
There is also a service to search apples dev site and java.sun.com.
There are a few services to modify text as well.
Add line comments
Remove line comments
Selecting a variable definition you can:
1. Generate ObjC accessors and headers
2. Generate Java getters/setters
Two more Java URL services:
selecting a fully qualified class(eg java.lang.String) or a package you can
look up the API docs at java.sun.com
By default none of these are in the service menu but you can add them.
Here is some more info from the press release:
Text Wielder allows users to create SFRL scripts which can be used both as
services or directly in the built-in text editor. SFRL uses a modified
regular expression syntax to define text input and processes output using a
JavaServer Page(JSP)**. This combination of regular expressions and JSPs
makes SFRL an extremely powerful text processing language with access to the
full Java API and Cocoa API.
Text Wielder homepage: <
http://homepage.mac.com/blenkush/products.html>
Feedback welcome.
Eric Blenkush
Tinnef Software