Jan
7
Since others were having fun with it, I decided to show off a quick, poorly chosen framerate flash demonstration of Intype creating an XHTML/PHP file to do the all-famous Hello World script. Obviously, the point is not to demonstrate my coding knowledge (or mis-knowledge), but to show off the text editor's snippet control features, and how it can speed up development. In case you're curious how it interacts, for the first step I typed out the text xml and then pressed the TAB key, everything was automatically filled in for the XML header. I then typed in doctype and then TAB, but since there are multiple doctypes, it gave me a choice of which one I wanted to use, so I used the arrow keys to highlight the desired choice and pressed the ENTER key. To move through the parameter list within each snippet (fillable properties), you would also use the TAB key and enter whatever it is you want, or press the DELETE or BACKSPACE (I think) key to remove the entire property.
Please note the system clock window to know how long this actually took me -- you can clock it, heck you can even clock my hesitation since I'm not used to the tool yet.
Please note the system clock window to know how long this actually took me -- you can clock it, heck you can even clock my hesitation since I'm not used to the tool yet.
Okay, so where's this screen demo preview?
You can watch the demo here, and once again, sorry for the poor framerate, I didn't think to change it before I started recording, and it's more problematic to do another recording than it is to do the demo! (Note: I may have to edit my .htaccess file to open this directory up...)
If you're interested, you can get your hands on Intype at their website to test it out yourself.
Now, the biggest and most important thing to be aware of is that Intype is v0.2 alpha, that's not even a v1.0 of alpha (or perhaps once they hit 1.0 it will no longer be alpha). Either way, keep in mind that there are still many, many missing features (such as undo/redo, copy/paste, etc...), so read over the forums to see what else may be missing. It's not quite ready for prime time, but it's still quite fun to toy around with the snippets, and maybe even write your own. I had planned to work on some personal coding project all day today; instead I was messing around with this thing.
You can watch the demo here, and once again, sorry for the poor framerate, I didn't think to change it before I started recording, and it's more problematic to do another recording than it is to do the demo! (Note: I may have to edit my .htaccess file to open this directory up...)
If you're interested, you can get your hands on Intype at their website to test it out yourself.
Now, the biggest and most important thing to be aware of is that Intype is v0.2 alpha, that's not even a v1.0 of alpha (or perhaps once they hit 1.0 it will no longer be alpha). Either way, keep in mind that there are still many, many missing features (such as undo/redo, copy/paste, etc...), so read over the forums to see what else may be missing. It's not quite ready for prime time, but it's still quite fun to toy around with the snippets, and maybe even write your own. I had planned to work on some personal coding project all day today; instead I was messing around with this thing.
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