[TxMt] Insert Flash object/embed tags?

[Allan Odgaard]

On 29/6/2006, at 4:00, Sean Schertell wrote:

> Are there plans to implement .swf insertion natively in future?

When you put it like that, no, I presently have no plans of doing that.

As for language specific features, these are not native, but stored  
in language specific bundles -- I generally only collect  
contributions for these bundles, as I don’t know the first thing  
about flash development, how to extract dimensions from a swf file,  
or let alone how the tag to insert needs to look.

Coincidentally I do believe that I know how a QuickTime tag needs to  
look, as there is already an Insert Movie snippet, and I see that I  
can query QuickTime Player for movie dimensions, so here is a drag  
command for dropping a .mov file into your HTML document:

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Just double click it to install -- this will also show the source of  
the command.

If this is useful, I can add it to the HTML bundle.

> I love the fact that TM allows me to add new functionality but it  
> would be nice if some of the basic things were built-in.

TextMate ships with more than a thousand bundle items -- so I do  
think some of the basic things are in fact “built-in.”

> - Shortcut based image tag insertion (browse to file, auto inserts  
> height/width)

I wrote such a command for you some time ago:

    http://lists.macromates.com/pipermail/textmate/2006-May/010562.html

> - Same as above but for Flash / Quicktime / etc

Should be possible to modify the command to also work with Flash /  
QuickTime / etc.

If you don’t know how to do this, you’re more than welcome to ask here.

> - A shortcut based built-in color-picker.  When editing style  
> sheets, I'd like to choose my color from a palette.

The CSS bundle has an Insert Color… You can assign a shortcut to it  
in the bundle editor.

> These things are pretty standard fare for most code editors no?   
> Just wondering if they'll eventually become native to TM too.

They might be standard for IDE’s which focus on web-development.  
TextMate focus on being extensible, and it wouldn’t take many minutes  
to create your commands, but I personally have no interest in  
replicating all the commands of some web IDE -- though if web  
developers find certain commands useful, I am generally willing to  
add them to the HTML bundle and I also offer my help wrt writing them.