If you never saw Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show, you're obviously much younger than me, and you missed a great TV show. He did a bit with Doc Severinsen where he'd ask audience members to name a song that they didn't think the band would know. Of course, Doc and the band would always play *something*, making up words as they went, and that was the really fun part of the bit. Then they'd turn it over to the audience member to sing their song, which was generally unusual, but not nearly as entertaining as watching the band. Hey... I'm a musician, what can I tell ya?
So what does this have to do with SlickEdit? Well, I'm playing 'Stump the Band' with them :)
Up to now, I've given them a macro to play, and they've offered up aliases sort of like Doc and the band, only in this case, Aliases are the real deal.
I had stripped the macro giving me fits down to it's fundamental piece, and as such it kinda/sorta looks like that's all I'm trying to do, and if it were, then an Alias would be *EXACTLY* the right fit, and thanks for reminding me about them ScottW!
An alias allows me to define a piece of *something* that I can replay back quickly by name. I've tried to see if I can attach it to a button and it doesn't seem obvious, if possible.
A good use for an alias might be a method header that has just boilerplate in it. I'm going to assume I could insert a live date. My header builder gets my input though, and does some interface layout for me, so not sure I'm going to be changing that.
Then another user jumped in and said that in his opinion, recording and playing back macros was really low on the priority list, and "gets vanishingly little use".
Dunno... I find myself doing quick little one-offs all the time that act against sometimes huge lists of data, so the record/playback is as important to me as anything else and a true deal-breaker.
Yeah, template editing is great, and I think how it worked in V7 was fine, and apparently what they were doing in V7 wasn't breaking the record/playback either.
So, until we're done playing Stump the Band, I'm using V7 and using they heck out of my "vanishingly little use" F7 macros :)
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posted @ Friday, May 16, 2008 9:44 AM