PainShop Pro Scripting - PSP Script Editor

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PSP Script Editor

Willy

2006-06-27, 9:09 pm

Is there a setting to force PSP scripts to be opened with the internal PSP
editor rather than the editor set in the preferences?

Fred Hiltz

2006-06-27, 9:09 pm

Willy wrote:
> Is there a setting to force PSP scripts to be opened with
> the internal PSP editor rather than the editor set in the
> preferences?

No. The internal editor always opens first on recorded scripts. Once
modified, or when programmed "from scratch," they are beyond the
capability of that simple editor, so PSP switches to the one set in
preferences.
--
Fred Hiltz, fhiltz at yahoo dot com

Willy

2006-06-27, 9:09 pm

Thanks Fred, I thought that was the case.
W
"Fred Hiltz" <not@home.ca> wrote in message news:44a03acd$1_1@cnews...
> Willy wrote:
>
> No. The internal editor always opens first on recorded scripts. Once
> modified, or when programmed "from scratch," they are beyond the
> capability of that simple editor, so PSP switches to the one set in
> preferences.
> --
> Fred Hiltz, fhiltz at yahoo dot com
>
>

John Andrisan

2006-07-10, 7:46 pm

I prefer my Kedit method.

I wrote a Kedit macro to get me a list all the scripts of a certain type
(like restricted or trusted, etc.) , and thei I use a cntrl-x to edit one.

I got Kedit from Mansfield Associates(on the web).
john

JoeB

2006-07-10, 7:46 pm

"John Andrisan" <andrisan@pacbell.net> wrote in news:44a3dbe1_1
@cnews:

> I prefer my Kedit method.
>
> I wrote a Kedit macro to get me a list all the scripts of a
certain
> type (like restricted or trusted, etc.) , and thei I use a cntrl-
x to
> edit one.
>
> I got Kedit from Mansfield Associates(on the web).
> john
>

Unless you're into programming, I'd think $150.00 for a text editor
is a bit much, especially if all you want to do is some editing of
PSP scripts. :-)

Regards,

JoeB

John Andrisan

2006-07-10, 7:46 pm

When I got it for my work place Win 3.1 it was about half that price. My
company paid for it because I was able to justify it for work purposes. It
resembled IBM's Xedit so closely that I could use it at home to do Xedit
macros too.

Now I use it for much more than PSP scripts. It's great for doing indexes
of books I have, etc.
john

Fred Hiltz

2006-07-10, 7:46 pm

JoeB wrote:
> "John Andrisan" <andrisan@pacbell.net> wrote in
> news:44a3dbe1_1
> @cnews:
>
>
> Unless you're into programming, I'd think $150.00 for a
> text editor is a bit much, especially if all you want to do
> is some editing of PSP scripts. :-)

These powerful text editors can do amazing things in the hands of an
experienced user. My own choice when I dueled in that arena was
Lugar's Epsilon. They are great when you already know one, but I
would not recommend them just for editing our Python programs. You
would waste 98% of the power you paid for. Overkill, in other words.

For our little one- to five-page Python programs, any of the editors
that are aware of Python syntax will do fine. Several are free, and
you can find discussions about them in the first two months of posts
in this group. I tried PythonWin first and found it very good, so
looked no further.
--
Fred Hiltz, fhiltz at yahoo dot com

Lori Davis

2006-07-10, 7:46 pm

"John Andrisan" <andrisan@pacbell.net> wrote in message
news:44a3dbe1_1@cnews...
>I prefer my Kedit method.
>
> I wrote a Kedit macro to get me a list all the scripts of a certain type
> (like restricted or trusted, etc.) , and thei I use a cntrl-x to edit one.
>
> I got Kedit from Mansfield Associates(on the web).
> john
>

That's Mansfield Software Group. I know because in an earlier life I
developed the original KEDIT docs. :)

I myself use KEDIT as my Python editor. I may have developed a KLD for
Python, too - will have to look. The trouble, though, is that Python depends
so much on indentation.

For anyone who's interested, the free KEDIT demo is fully functional and
doesn't time-out. There's a limit on the size of files you can save,
though - 75 lines - and, of course, you don't get the printed docs:

http://www.kedit.com/kwdemo.html

Lori