What's this about the Dialog2 bundle... and what's this I hear about a public AppleScript API for textmate (as mentioned in a commit to the Dialog2 bundle)?
Can someone enlighten me and possibly post a link, or two? I'd like to learn about Dialog2, specifically if it can help with the git bundle.
I'm really interested to know if any of the following are possible:
* Is it possible to open up a new html-output pane in textmate, bound to a process, invoked by an already running bundle command?
* Is it possible, through the AppleScript-API, to list all of the tabs that are open. (currently using the fantastic TMTOOLS plugin to do it, but would be nice if this feature became part of core, as I'm not sure if TMTOOLS has been the cause of some unstability i've been experiencing)?
* What new dialogs are provided by Dialog2?
If someone's got a quick answer, I'd appreciate it :) Though, as I've invested little time to writing this message, I'd not be terribly disappointed if it was ignored.
Thank you beloved TextMate community,
Tim
On 26 Mar 2008, at 18:47, Tim Harper wrote:
What's this about the Dialog2 bundle... and what's this I hear about a public AppleScript API for textmate (as mentioned in a commit to the Dialog2 bundle)?
Dialog2 is just v2 of Dialog1 :)
The major difference is that it is modular, so syntax is “$DIALOG «command» «options»” where v1 had all parts share the same options, making it a pain to extend (and made all the patches I received touch all files rather than just be a self-contained extension).
Making it modular of course means that contributions are made simpler, so V2 has HTML tool-tips and type-to-filter pop-up menus (ideal for completion).
As for AppleScript, TextMate effectively just support a single command in addition to a few standard suite things.
Can someone enlighten me and possibly post a link, or two? I'd like to learn about Dialog2, specifically if it can help with the git bundle.
Checkout http://macromates.com/svn/Bundles/branches/WIP/Tools/Dialog2/ somewhere, open one of the source files in TextMate and press ⌘B to build it (or use Xcode :) ).
Relaunch TextMate and execute (with ⌃R in a new document): "$DIALOG" help
This should show help for the presently 6 commands.
I'm really interested to know if any of the following are possible: [...]
No, don’t think you will find much help in D2 for the Git bundle.
I see the value of your (implicit) requests though :)
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Tim Harper