It’d be great to make this more of an IDE. You have some syntax color tagging, which is nice; but for example it’d be great to be able to re-indent a script to prettify it, and to be able to select a range and use TAB and SHIFT-TAB to indent and de-indent a block.
The mechanism for referencing fields by “ID” is also awkward, especially since the only way to get the ID is to use a button that inserts a complete assignment statement. At the very least, a lookup function that takes a field name and returns the ID would make this a bit easier to work with; and also make the script a lot easier to read.
(And, by the way, in case it’s not obvious, I think this addition is an amazing idea.)
Hi David,
Yes, you’re definitely right about all that. It’s just a first crack at this feature so it will get better as I work more on it. It’d be great if Xcode had a plug-in to provide its source code editor into other apps.
I was thinking about the field ID thing the other day, that perhaps I could recognize the “cleaned” field name as an ID and you’d just have to type in the field name instead of assigning a field ID to a var. Again, first crack at it.
I’m glad that you’re enjoying and using this new feature!
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