According to the help file, the hot spot ( \^ )
will be replaced by the current selection on the screen.
But if you have 2 or more hot spots in the same clipping,
only the first hot spot is replaced.
How can I (or is it even possible) get all the hot spots replaced?
med venlig hilsen / best regards
Henrik Skafsgaard Larsen
Multiple hot spots in clip files
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Andreas
Re: Multiple hot spots in clip files
This is not yet possible. I requested this feature many months ago and got the answer that it will be considered for a future version...
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Matt West
Clip Library enhancement (Re: Multiple hot spots in clip fil
Hi
I've sent this enhancement request in because I'd love to see this too. What do you think ?....
I would love to see you [Textpad dev team] develop the Clip Library functionality.
At the moment, its limited to just *one* instance of *one* "hot spot", so your dialog box is a straight-forward 'before and after' affair.
I think this would be improved by allowing the hot spot to appear in the library any number of times. For example, this would be ideal for a "new class" clip: the hot spot could be used for the class name, javadoc-style comments, and for constructor methods.
Also, this mechanism could be used in a "blank HTML" clip: the hot spot could be used for the title tag, meta descriptions, and heading.
A further idea may be to allow several different hot spots in each clip, hence making the clip fully "parameterized". So instead of a "\^" appearing once in each clip in the .TCL files, you could have several "\^1", "\^2". In fact, you could code the .TCL files like this:
!TEXT= Blank HTML Page ^
!PARAMETER= Short description
!PARAMETER= Long description
<head>
<title>\^1</title>
<meta name="description" content="\^2">
</head>
<body>
<h1>\^1</h1>
<p>\^2</p>
</body>
At the moment, the user has some text selected which they want to be the hot spot, then they double-click the clip name in the Clip Library view.
For the above improvement, you need to know what the user parameters will be. How about bringing up a simple (dynamically generated) dialog box prompting for the params ?
Thanks for an excellent product. I'll post this to the forums to see what others think.
Matt West.
I've sent this enhancement request in because I'd love to see this too. What do you think ?....
I would love to see you [Textpad dev team] develop the Clip Library functionality.
At the moment, its limited to just *one* instance of *one* "hot spot", so your dialog box is a straight-forward 'before and after' affair.
I think this would be improved by allowing the hot spot to appear in the library any number of times. For example, this would be ideal for a "new class" clip: the hot spot could be used for the class name, javadoc-style comments, and for constructor methods.
Also, this mechanism could be used in a "blank HTML" clip: the hot spot could be used for the title tag, meta descriptions, and heading.
A further idea may be to allow several different hot spots in each clip, hence making the clip fully "parameterized". So instead of a "\^" appearing once in each clip in the .TCL files, you could have several "\^1", "\^2". In fact, you could code the .TCL files like this:
!TEXT= Blank HTML Page ^
!PARAMETER= Short description
!PARAMETER= Long description
<head>
<title>\^1</title>
<meta name="description" content="\^2">
</head>
<body>
<h1>\^1</h1>
<p>\^2</p>
</body>
At the moment, the user has some text selected which they want to be the hot spot, then they double-click the clip name in the Clip Library view.
For the above improvement, you need to know what the user parameters will be. How about bringing up a simple (dynamically generated) dialog box prompting for the params ?
Thanks for an excellent product. I'll post this to the forums to see what others think.
Matt West.
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Andreas
Re: Clip Library enhancement (Re: Multiple hot spots in clip
Another fine thing would be \^t, \^T, \^d and \^D for time and date in short and long format
Re: Multiple hot spots in clip files
A pity that nothing has come of this. There are times when just the simple ability to put the hot spot in twice would be a real boon. (I can normally crank up a regular expression to do what I want, but that requires brain power!)