tRev Quickstart - get started fast!
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Updated: 5PM CST/US, Dec 6, 2009.
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Feature Friday: drag-n-drop to make a substack!
Watch how easy it is to drag-n-drop a stack to make it a substack or a mainstack!
Make a mainstack a sub stack; make a sub stack a main stack! Just drag-n-drop in tRev's Object Browser!
Not shown in video: hold down the shift key to make a copy of a stack!
New Visible column button for stacks:
Close changes to Delete if you select a sub stack:
Run tRev in lean-n-mean mode with no headers, footers or tooltips:
This minimalist mode also offers you more vertical space for code!
Now you can edit your stack names just like you can with cards and controls:
Changes made via the tRev column buttons now mark their stacks as edited, and thus you are prompted to save your stacks in Rev unless you saved them in tRev. Saving from the object browser or the code editor in tRev also does a better job of marking main stacks and sub stacks as saved so you are not prompted to save them when you already have!
BTW: all of tRev's column buttons work faster now by making far fewer trips back to Rev. Many of them over 20 times faster.
The Mac and PC versions are ready for you to use now. Just update your components.
For those who have yet to take the plunge:
Drag-n-drop your way out of relayering hell!
tRev's Object Browser will now let you:
- Drag an object in the Object Browser to re-layer it.
- Shift+drag an object to clone and relayer it.
- Double-click an object name in Browser to re-name it.
- Set the content of a label field WHILE you re-name it.
Double-clicking has changed
To edit the name of a control listed as a line item in the Object Browser, you must double-click on the actual name of the control. Clicking anywhere else will edit the object itself.
Double-clicking the object type ("grc" for example) or a neutral area of the highlighted line (where there's no text) will result in editing the control's code. As before, depressing the shift key while double-clicking in these areas will open the object's property inspector in Rev IDE.
FIXED: Double clicking the number of lines of code in an Object Browser line item will not edit the name of the object. Instead, it will edit the code.
Use your keyboard to the max!
To edit, accept changes and navigate the Object Browser, type the following:
- command+return to edit the name of an object if you're in browse mode.
- command+return while editing to accept the edit and return to browse mode.
- enter while editing to accept the edit. (cmd+return if no enter key)
- return to accept the edit and edit the next line (if there is one).
- down arrow to accept the edit and edit the next line.
- up arrow to accept the edit and edit the previous line.
- tab to accept the edit and edit the next line.
- right arrow at the end of the edited name will accept the edit and edit next line.
- left arrow at the beginning of the edited name will accept the edit and edit previous line.
This is one of those processes that's MUCH easier to do than to explain. Keyboarding is the only way to do re-naming en masse.
The Hat Trick
With inline editing you can name your label fields and set their content at the same time:
Step 1
Step 2:
Step 3:
Bonus: if you type shift+return to accept the edited name of any field, its new name will appear as its text content.
Why doesn't the Revolution application browser do all this?
The developers of the Rev IDE have to worry about what version of the engine you're running. This precludes using some of the newer features like the new drag and drop messages and the formattedTop property--all of which make allow us to do relayering and inline editing in tRev's Object Browser.
tRev can run the most recent engine and never worry about the IDE, since it runs in its own application partition. That means you don't have to worry about the IDE, either!
All users can update now!
Feature Friday: better tab shortcuts
Our short cuts for the tRev Tabs are now more in compliance with established browser behavior and also with Rev's native script editor. Please note that the escape key still works to close tabs, but upon closing the last tab that is also an Object Browser, tRev switches back to the wonderful Revolution 4.0 (if you haven't got it, try to get it!).
Command+n still works to create a new tab (which is also an Object Browser).
where my rev...
It's November 11th 2009, I want my revStudio 4.0 update...
I am assuming where going by Edinburgh time.
Feature Friday: Snaps!
Visualize Your Controls
- Snaps are snapshots of cards shown in tRev's Object Browser.
- Snaps can be turned on or off via a Column Button called Snap.
- Snap buttons are beneath the Object Browser's Cards and Controls columns.
Get to Editing Faster
- Click a line item in Controls to place orange rect around the control in card's Snap.
- Click a control in a Snap and its line item in Controls list hilites.
- Double-click any control in the Snap to edit it in tRev.
- Hold down shift to inspect its properties in Rev.
Look, Mom—No Mouse!
- Typing return or enter is the same as double-clicking a Snap's control.
- Use the arrow keys to navigate the Controls list and work mouse-less.
- Your mother will be proud. Fathers are harder to please.
Safety, Power, Convenience
- When you click on a Snap to select a control, it cannot be moved or altered—only edited.
- Click an invisible control in the list and you will see its rect in the Snap.
- Click an off-screen control in the list and you will see its rect in the Snap if it's nearby.
- Click a disabled control in the Snap and it will become selected in the list.
Gather Images for Documentation
- Shift-click a Snap and it gets saved to your clipboard as a JPEG.
- Entire image of the card is included with a gray 1 pixel border.
- You'll get visual (flash) and aural (shutter sound) feedback indicating success.
Quick Keys
- Single keystroke shortcuts for Object Browser are now called Quick Keys.
- Quick Key for turning Snap on or off is p as in 'snap a picture' of a card.
- Quick Key for Snap will not work unless Cards or Controls column is active.
Your Brain on Snaps
- With Snaps you can use both sides of your brain: spatial and analytical.
- Anecdotal evidence indicate an effect approximating hedonic hypersynchrony.
Fixed This Week
- After cmd+f, cut, copy & paste shortcuts work in Find and Replace fields.
- Column button Delete now actually works after its warning dialog appears.
To get all this goodness...
Easter Egg Master Mark Talluto
We've hidden two Easter eggs in tRev since its inception, and Mark Talluto has found them both—before anyone else did so.
In yesterday's version, Mark inadvertently shift-clicked a line item in the Cards column of tRev's Object Browser. He was startled to see a beautiful snapshot of his card in the lower half of the Controls column.
