Navigator 2.5b1 review

Navigator is a plug-in for the Revolution development.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: Runtime Revolution Ltd Buy Now Price: $20.00 Updated: 16 Sep 2005

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Navigator is a plug-in for the Revolution development. Revolution allows developers of all levels to write custom, internet, database, multimedia and CGI processing applications

Revolution is fully cross-platform and allows developers to write their software once and deliver it on all major platforms.

Here are some key features of "Navigator":
Navigator displays lists of Revolution objects: stacks, cards, groups, and controls.
The list can show the controls on the current card of the topStack, or of any card or group of any stack. In the image to the right, Navigator is listing the controls in the current card of the topStack -- stack "Untitled 2". The controls in the stack are listed in blue. Field "New Field 1" is in green because it has a script.
The items in purple and brown are bookmarks. You can bookmark references to any controls, and color-code the references. Note how controls from stack "Untitled 4" and stack "Untitled 3" are both displayed at the same time as the live display of controls from stack "Untitled 2". You can mix and match bookmarks any way you like.
Navigator allows you to edit scripts, set properties or run code against any list of objects. In the list to the right, you could select controls from all three stacks and set the visible of the controls to false with one command.
Navigator makes it easy to work with controls that aren't normally accessible: controls in groups, hidden controls, controls on hidden stacks, controls that are in different places, controls that are in palettes or non-modal stacks.
Navigator allows you to do things you wouldn't ordinarily be able to do: align controls that are on different cards, for example.
Navigator makes you a faster developer: edit the scripts of controls on different cards quickly and easily; change any property with a single menu selection rather than using a palette; go to the handler you want to edit in a long script with a single command.

Requirements:
Revolution development.