How do you copy a section of code that you might want to use again at a later part of the program or in an additional script without having to rewrite the whole section. Within groovy I don't seem to be able to copy a selected section to paste somewhere else and if I save it as a text file the formatting is a complete mess.

Thanks!

Using the built-in editor, you can use "shift-highlight" and then "ctrl-c" (copy) and "ctrl-p" (paste) like in a word processor, can't you?

As for saving as a text file, I use 'EditPad Pro' but a similar program like Notepad++ or Programmer's File Editor should keep the right formatting when you use them to edit/save a groovy script, I think.

I added cut/copy/paste in the editor (release 08/16/2011 - 0.96.6), to know where is the problem. You should be able to do copy/paste in and out the editor. What is your system ?

Thanks both of you. Any special way to update the program other than download a whole new download? System Windows 7 if that is what you are asking.

No (there are a lot of releases now, but in a few months there will be only one or two a year).

Notepad++ did the trick. Thanks!!

Using functions (sometimes called methods) is so very important to writing a good script. Instead of writing the same code over and over write it once at the top of the file ...



Then call it



With the return statement you can get results from the function, like how many times the user looped or stroked ... a metronome function rather than copy pasting the same loop.

Writers are not encouraged to use functions in scripts.

How come?

Functions are pretty fundamental to computer programming, that's not an opinion I have I'm not saying we should use functions because I believe in functions ... software is made of functions. For repeat tasks and big indepth scripts wouldn't it save a lot of lines and make writing a script eaiser for the writer?

Plus it would give you useful code that you could implement in future API's making the software even better?

show() is a function wait() is a function loadString() is a function, are we discouraged from using these? I don't understand why there would be a discouragement from making good code.

Sorry it was not clear.

Writers are not encouraged to write some closures in scripts to reproduce the principles of functions.