Parameters for external programs/editors

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herya
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Parameters for external programs/editors

Post by herya »

I am very much used to Topstyle and the way they handle external programs/editors accessing currently edited files. When adding an external program you are asked to choose a parameter - should the changes be made to current document, current preview, current selection or current word. Webuilder does not specify it at all.

How it is important?

I work in iso-8859-2 encoding which is not supported by Webuilder (nor Topstyle, nor Homesite, sadly). The workaround is to use an external converter to change the encoding, preferably from withing the HTML editor to save (loads of) time as it is done quite often. To encode a document in Topstyle I only need to define an external converting tool and assign the parameter (current file). When the converter is launched from within Topstyle it converts the currently edited file, end of story.

When I hook an external converter to Webuilder the converter is launched all right but it does not convert the current file as it cannot find any source file. I need to manually open the file in the converter, convert it, save, return to Webuilder and reload.

This is just one small example of how the parameters for external tools/editors can be useful. Maybe you'll find time to implement them!
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Post by syrupcore »

herya, this has been requested before and you'll be happy to know that it's on the list. the list large though cause we're a greedy bunch. :) there's no timeline that I know of. I'm sure Karlis will chime in if it's in the immediate future.
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Post by herya »

Thanks, good to know - I am staying with Topstyle now for this very reason but Webuilder feels great and I'll probably be moving soon as I do more & more PHP.
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Post by Karlis »

We hope to add paremeters for external programs in the next major version. Currently you can use "editors" feature which is generally external programs with current doc passed as parameter.
Karlis Blumentals
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Re: Parameters for external programs/editors

Post by Boofo »

Has the current selection or current word parameters been added yet? I notice it works in the Help menu but not in the external programs.
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