Free Addon: Code Viewer

[Brett]

I made a little utility program that can be used to open your .am5 project files and list all script in the project in a text window. It can be useful for finding code in large projects or if you want to keep an archive of all the script in a project.

Just thought it might help someone out there at some point...

[Corey]

Cool. I tried typing a file path in the file field but I forgot to type the file, I just typed the path, i.e. :

C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0 Projects\MyFolder

Then I pressed Enter. The app shut down. Trying to restart it produced a "Failed to load XML" error but it restarted OK after closing the error dialog. Reproduces each time.

Cool tool though, once I did get it pointed at a file. It's a great solution to the "Movie Explorer" style script lister Yossi was in need of. Great stuff!

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

Brett,
Very handy little tool...greatly appreciated.

Crash D.

[Bruce]

Thanks Brett!
Big help!

[yosik]

Brett, you're THE MAN!
I was very much in need of that (and am not the only one...).
Great util!
Thanks
Yossi

[Corey]

Yeah, I use it all the time now...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[yosik]

I would like to suggest 2 things:
1. Would it be possible (Brett) to add a feature which allows to choose the text editor? Notepad has NO color coding or ident etc.....
2. Suggestion: to integrated this feature into AMS (6 ?).

I know I am greedy
Yossi

[AGRO]

Brett, where do you find the time???

This is great, thanks!!

[kcs]

Just the other day I was thinking how handy an object/script listing tool would be ... and lo, it came to be!! :

One thing though, although it shows the 'Global' script pages, I'm not seeing the 'On startup' and 'On shutdown' project level scripts ...

[Intrigued]

Thanks again Brett for this very useful tool!

Sincerely,

[yosik]

Forget it ? No way!
I am not moving in AMS without this tool. You have NO idea, Brett, how useful this is to me (and I am sure I am not the only one).
As a bumping thread...Thanks again, Bret.
Yossi

[Brett]

Thanks, great to know people still use it. I had forgotten about it myself until today...

It would actually be quite easy to make a cooler one using AMS50 and the XML plugin. The AMS50 project files are just XML and parsing them for their script would be quite easy... just a weekend project fro some of you AMS junkies...

[csd214]

Originally Posted by Brett

Thanks, great to know people still use it.

What should I do without AMS50 Code Viewer? Just one example: Lua scripts are case sensitive and my memory fails me sometimes. Was the variable name gcVerInfo or gcverinfo? Without leaving the On Click window I can use the code viewer (much better then having two running instances of the project).

If some AMS junkie is going to create ver 2 I have two wishes:
1) Include the actions On Startup/On shutdown
2) Do some housekeeping when you exit the viewer (delete all the scr*.txt and scr*.tmp files in the Temp dir)

PS: My wife tells me that I’m a messy person. I confess! But not when I come to my computers: I regularly clean up the temp dirs, run defregmentation (automatically) and clean up the Registry. Btw; an app creating a Registry entry should be responsible to remove the entry when it has no use anymore. OK, it’s possible that I’m perversely accurate with respect to my computers. But I want them to stay healthy.

[csd214]

Originally Posted by Brett

just a weekend project for some of you AMS junkies...

Has any “weekend builder” volunteered?

Like Yosik said: This useful tool should be integrated into AMS.