Of course, my view is going to be slanted toward FPI EditPad.
I've been a programmer for more than 40 years. I developed FPI EditPad for both the novice and experienced programmer because I didn't particularly like using any of the "professional" editors. I wanted something that was more geared to fpi scripts. I wanted to be able to easily identity the conditions and actions on the single line of code as this was how fpi scripting worked. One line at a time. So we have conditions in red and actions in blue.
Another thing I wanted to do was syntax checking. It checks if there are two colons only. That's important because the first colon is for conditions and the second colon is where the actions start. It will also check for misspelled or invalid conditions and actions.
I also wanted a convenient way to look up the commands and the ability to get a short explanation for them. Even I cannot memorize everything anymore.
I want to thank Pirate Myke for providing all the RPGmod conditions and actions as well as
Corno_1 for providing the newest released conditions and actions.
Another thing that was convenient for me was to be able to have more than one script open at a time. I prefer not having them tabbed. In order to make the image smaller I scrunched them altogether. I usually have them in a more ordered way.
You can have one full windowed script at a time and even if you don't you can get a list of the opened scripts and select which one you want to bring to the front.
Here is what Lee said about this when he accepted it as a tool:
Quote: "The app looks great, and it makes a refreshing alternative to NOTEPAD
I will be sure to use it from now on . . .. I especially like the way it catches any typos.
"
Yup, typos was always a biggy for me as well. When the script runs it ignores all the bad commands and therefore they won't work.
I have nothing to gain by convincing others to use this application. It is not perfect and it could use some more tweaking. There are probably two small bugs that still exist but they are usually not a problem for the casual user. I have had it crash for me but I use this app constantly. However, it is not big enough for me to go in and fix. I just re-open and continue on.
Also, for those who like other editing apps. They have their reasons and they have been given here. I have no problem with them using something else. I simply developed this for myself personally and very early on I was asked to make it available to the community. As a professional it was at that time I decided to make it look more
professional and added a lot more to it.
THEORY - you know everything but nothing works. PRACTICE - when everything works but don't know why. For me, theory and practice are combined: nothing works and I don't know why.
