[futurebasic] Re: [FB] FB clock Again/Editor and X

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From: Robert Covington <artlythere@...>
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 16:32:10 -0500
On Thursday, January 1, 2004, at 12:02  PM, Brian Stevens wrote:

>
>>  [Still anxiously awaiting the X version of FB.]
>>
> The compiler runs in X. The editor is the last major piece we all 
> would like to see in X.

This is old news for some.

Anyone who is using OS X (it's OSX only) and who doesn't mind an 
-alternative temporary-, certainly not a replacement editor, can 
download and try my "Editor X", a temporary OS X editor I provided to 
the beta team a while back. At this point, I am not sure if it is any 
aid, and hopefully the jewel of the denial will show itself soon enough 
anyway. I don't know what that pun means, I just wanted to make one. :)

I would think : If you don't have the carbon compiler though, there's 
not much use using it (other than if you are having Panther launch 
problems) because Classic will still be firing up anyway, so why not 
use the official editor. I still do. :)

3 Caveats and Requirements plus one more for the road:

1. Install is to place it alongside your regular FB Editor. Wise people 
will read the docs.

2. Contact Robert Covington (that's me) , for any questions. See Number 
3.

3. No Exceptions: Staz Software is not affiliated with this at all, it 
was an independent production. So, don't bug them about it At All.

4. IMPORTANT:  If you download this application, don't whine at me 
about what it is missing! It is built on Apples MLTE engine 
(Multi-lingual Text Engine), and all those luxury line-ers and 
indento-trons of what you are used to are a function of a custom text 
and drawing engine, not one that runs the whole file/editing show and 
is as bug filled and slow as MLTE can be. It's a temporary hack for 
those who can stand it (and that's not too many that I can tell), and 
it just runs projects (no adding of files however) or files (you can at 
least make those).

Mostly, it's a file / project runner.

Bugeats:
** There's a bug in this version where Check Toolboxes pref is missed 
for a file run. Works for a project.
** There may be a bug in this version where your headers are marked as 
modified just by opening them from the Project Mangler, so don't go 
opening them if you don't need to.

I will be doing no more work on this though, so don't worry about 
problems with it. :) They are there to stay. :) But if someone wanted 
to make an indenter, I can supply a failed prototype. The problem is 
that doing such and replacing the text in MLTE seems to promote later 
crashes. Thus I've left it all out.

Editor X will never ever be as easy and fast and whatever as the real 
editor, so don't run it expecting it to be so, and to look the same and 
offer the same function and luxury. It's a different user experience. 
Just run it if you have a carbon compiler and want a simple carbon 
editor. Otherwise, wait for the real thing.

If using a foreign system, you may need to change the STR# resources  
to your compiler paths.

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