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After discovering how to exploit the capabilities of applications and the system, it’s time to create scripts. As scripts consist of text in the form of code, the Editor is therefore a critical component of any scripting tool. Script Debugger’s powerful code building and editing tools keep you focused on your work. The editor supports Mac OS X text editing conventions, from emacs key bindings to services, and beyond.

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Powerful Code Building Tools

Improve productivity and develop scripts more quickly and easily with Script Debugger’s powerful and flexible code creation features. Insert tell blocks and more complex code from almost any window. Script Debugger's ‘clippings’ intelligently insert code ranging from AppleScript constructs (such as repeat loops), to basic tell blocks, to application commands (including parameters). Clippings wrap around the text that you have selected. It’s also simple to create your own clippings.

Script Debugger streamlines the development process with its tight integration of all components of the application. The Editor, Dictionary Browser/Explorer and Known Applications, Look Up Definition and Tell Context Inspectors all work together to provide a complete solution. Drag elements from the Finder, or from Script Debugger’s windows in the Editor, to insert Tell blocks. Special buttons in these windows also insert code. In the Editor, quickly and easily perform many common editing tasks using Contextual menus. They also provide access to Look Up Definition for selected terms and clipping and tell block insertion.

The Known Applications Inspector lists all the commands and events for each application that it contains. In addition, it displays this information for applications that aren’t currently running (AppleScript requires an application to be running when browsing its dictionary). Drag a function or command into a script and it inserts the tell block and parameters. For example, it inserts the complete code for duplicating a Finder item when dragging the Finder’s 'duplicate' function into the script (or when using the Paste Tell button with that function selected).

Tight Application Dictionary Integration

View only the relevant dictionary information about what’s selected in the editor using the Tell Context inspector. Selections in the Editor influence what appears in this inspector. Changes in the script immediately affect its content. Explore the effect of changing ‘whose’ clauses because this inspector is dynamic. For example, when scripting iTunes, see all the information about ‘playlist whose name is ‘My Top Rated’’ and change the name to see how iTunes responds.

Find terms no matter where they are located with the Look Up Definition Inspector. It’s similar to Search Dictionary but permits searching multiple dictionaries and Scripting Additions simultaneously. The Look Up Definitions inspector offers fine-grained control over which Dictionaries to search and what type of element to be found. Specify any or all of the types to search: Suites, Commands, Events, Classes, Records, Enumerations and Types, as well as any or all parts of the Dictionary entries: Names, Descriptions, Synonyms and Apple Event Codes.

Flexible Code Presentation

Control the appearance of the script in the editor, from formatting for various parts of AppleScript to visually identifying spaces, tabs, returns and other invisible characters. Easily identify location (even for very long scripts) using Display line numbers in editors. Other items that help create and navigate the script include searching the script, Table of Contents menu, providing rapid access to globals, properties and handlers, and script objects. Identify block nesting problems or select elements of scripts in a structured fashion from the ‘inside out’ using brackets, braces, parentheses and other AppleScript structures (such as repeat loops and handlers) using the Balance command.

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