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These scripts will be called when the editor app saves the file or closes the window. Copy two Apple Event handler scripts into the table.

Create a traps table for the editor app if it doesn't exist.

Associate the file spec with the address of the object in the openfiles table.

Create a temporary file in the Preferences folder containing the text of the object.

If the editorApp isn't running, launch it and clear out the table.

First, we make sure that the user.odbTextEditor table exists and that its fields are initialized.

adrobject contains the address of the object to be edited.

The object you chose to edit has changed!įirst, thanks to Rich Siegel and Bare Bones Software for designing this protocol. Switch back into Frontier and check it out. The next time you run the command you will not be asked to locate the editor. The editor launches and opens the text of the object you chose to edit. For now, that must be BBEdit 4.0 or greater.

A dialog appears asking you to locate a compatible editor.

Open a table containing a string or wptext object, put the cursor on the object and press cmd-E.

There's a new command in the UserLand menu, Edit Object Text, single keystroke cmd-E.

Double-click on the files in the Finder, click on OK for all confirmation dialogs that appear.The folder contains two items, the suite that implements Frontier's side of the protocol and a new command for Frontier's menu bar. Let's have fun!īy the way, I am editing this page in BBEdit 4.0, but it's stored in the Frontier object database. The scripts in the suites.odbTextEditor table define the protocol. Bare Bones and UserLand encourage other editing tools and database vendors to wire up. This plugs in well with storage system improvements coming in Frontier 4.1, which rely on disk-based strings to store HTML text more efficiently. The text of Frontier's object oriented websites are now editable by BBEdit.

This gives you full advantage of both software products. The ODB Text Editor suite implements an open protocol defined by BBEdit 4.0, allowing it to be used to edit string and wptext objects that are stored in Frontier's object database. 7/29/96.Įditing Object Database Text with BBEdit A powerful new connection! - Now you can use BBEdit 4.0 to edit string and text cells in Frontier's object database.