Old-style Frontier usage in OS X world

[richard sucgang phd]

One of the big differences when I last tried Radio Userland (and the 
deal killer) is that the glue with BBEdit has been broken - Frontier 
lets me edit text items by the keyboard shortcuts, but this doesn't 
seem to work in Radio.

Unless this has changed recently.

At 4:47 PM -0600 4/9/03, Samuel Reynolds wrote:
>At 2003-04-09 02:59 PM -0500, you wrote:
>>I too still use Frontier in this way, and for even more mundane tasks
>>which I could use Applescript for, but don't want to. I like the
>>Frontier scripting environment better, and have been using it for these
>>tasks since it was free. I wish there were a version of Frontier which
>>just did these tasks, at a discount -- it's an expensive tool if one is
>>just doing scripting jobs. I keep thinking that I'll switch to
>>Applescript, but am too invested in Frontier.
>>
>>Nick Cahill
>
>It's called Radio Userland. $39 is a pretty good discount
>compared to $899.
>
>RU doesn't have mainResponder; it does include all the
>older static site building tools and scripts (i.e., the
>website framework, tcp, etc.), and may fix a few bugs.
>The associated menu commands are harder to find; they're
>in a submenu at Tools->Static Sites. But they're the
>same commands, with the same keyboard shortcuts.
>
>I just built 2 new sites, including the 3rd party (i.e.,
>my) HtmlImage and XFile suites, without a glitch.
>
>FWIW, I don't see why any pre-7.0 Frontier suite or
>script wouldn't work just as in earlier Frontier versions,
>unless it makes use of mainResponder. If you take advantage
>of newer builtins in Frontier, they are probably there,
>as well.
>
>- Sam

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