[Chandler-dev] Function-key scripts

[D John Anderson]

Hi:

On Aug 16, 2007, at 8:30 AM, Morgen Sagen wrote:

> Out of the box Chandler ships with the following scripts that are
> triggered by function keys, and I think we should take a quick pass at
> which ones to remove:
>
> 'F1 - Create a new script' (Script) //parcels/osaf/app/New Script
>
>    Running this one creates a Script item in the repo but doesn't
> expose it to the user anywhere, so repeated pressing will fill up the
> repo with garbage.

I'm hoping that when I finish my script recording that it could  
replace many of the manually written scripts. The new scripting code  
is 10 times smaller than the old and it's difficult to maintain the  
old code going forward.

>
> 'F2 - Block under cursor' (Script) //parcels/osaf/app/Block Inspector
>
>    This prints to stdout the name and UUID of the CPIA block under the
> mouse cursor.

I use this one

>
> 'F3 - Item selected' (Script) //parcels/osaf/app/Item Inspector
>
>    This one always prints "None" to stdout.
>
> 'F4 - Browse selected item' (Script) //parcels/osaf/app/Browse  
> Selected
>
>    My favorite: launches the web browser to display details about
> selected item.
>
> 'F5 - Paste new item' (Script) //parcels/osaf/app/Paste New Item
>
>    I could have sworn I saw this work recently, but when I try it now,
> nothing happens.
>
> 'F6 - Print selected item to stdout' (Script) //parcels/osaf/app/Print
> Selected to stdout
>
>    This calls Item.printItem( ) for the currently selected item,
> displaying all attributes to stdout.
>
>
>
> I wouldn't mind losing all of these except for F4 which I use
> constantly, and I think for support purposes we will likely ask end
> users to use F4 to provide us debugging info.  I imagine that other
> devs use F2 ?  Should we remove any of these, and/or bind them to
> different function keys?
>
> ~morgen
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