dhempy
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| Posted: 07/09/2004, 11:21 PM |
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It would be absolutely FANTASTIC to have CCS integrate with the text editor of the user's choice for HTML and/or code editing. The text editor in CCS is better than notepad, but I'm sure we all have our own personal favorites that pack in some more powerful features. For me, I'm a die-hard UltraEdit fan. Others have their own favorites, I'm sure. I would gladly give up the CCS-aware highlighting (ie. user-altered code) to have a familiar, robust editor.
Not sure how feasible it is, but it would be a great feature. For now, ^a ^c alt-tab ^a ^v isn't too bad to haul the code between programs, but still...
-dave
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| Posted: 07/12/2004, 5:50 AM |
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Me too! I really would love this for my content providers
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dhempy
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| Posted: 07/15/2004, 8:19 PM |
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As an alternative to supporting plug-in editors (or some variation on the theme), there is an easy, effective and nearly-as-good solution. Most modern editors check for changes to files when you minimize and restore an application. When you switch back to your editor from another application, it looks to see if any of files you have currently open have changed. (Probably just looking at the last-modified date, or maybe registering an onChange alert with the OS) If any have been changed, it pops up a dialogue, asking if you want to keep your version, or reload from disk.
This would be a fair poor-man's plug-in editor. I could simply keep a file (perhaps an html template) continually open in both CCS and UltraEdit, and let them continually overwrite each other and reload each other's changes under my guidance.
This is a good idea even beyond my proposed use...If another user edits my file while I'm working, I sure want to know about it!
It may not be practical to monitor files on an FTP server this way, but certainly on the local drive or a network volume.
FWIW,
-dave
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darren166
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| Posted: 07/16/2004, 5:05 AM |
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I currently do this with Dreamweaver and CCS.
When you switch to Dreamweaver it knows the code has changed and will inform you, but with CCS you have to switch from design view to code view (or vice-versa) to get it to see the change. It is a little annoying but it does work.
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dhempy
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| Posted: 07/16/2004, 1:05 PM |
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Quote darren166:
I currently do this with Dreamweaver and CCS.
When you switch to Dreamweaver it knows the code has changed and will inform you, but with CCS you have to switch from design view to code view (or vice-versa) to get it to see the change. It is a little annoying but it does work.
Darren
TREMENDOUS! 
That is a bit odd that you have to change between views, but that's OK by me...this is good enough for what I need! Thanks for the tip, Darren.
-dave
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