External source editor

Question

Anyone know how to setup an external source editor?
D11 allows one to change loads of media editors based on its
"extension" and/or "mime/type", but there is in the list support
for source editor, which IMHO is the most important of all.
That and all the scripts DEFAULT to be writen as text files
in the same directory as the cast/movie that they come from
naturally.
I would like to use a "serious" text editor to hack
lingo/javascript scripts, not the internal text editor (which imho,
should just be scraped and sticked to view/breakpoint/inspect
mode).
Thanx in advance,
Kindaian

Answer 1

I like to use NetBeans at
http://www.netbeans.org/ . It
does code folding, and has a nice javascript reference. You can set
it up with Director by going to Edit->Preferences->Editors.
Locate the Netbeans executable typically at:
C:\Program Files\NetBeans 6.5\bin\netbeans.exe
Be forewarned though: You must specify an external file with
the .js extension for Nebeans to know its a javascript file.
Unfortunately, if you just double click any cast member that is a
script, Director launches the editor opening a temp file with the
extension .ls (as in Linked Script -dumb). Netbeans won't know what
to do with it and won't show you all the Javascript features like
code folding.
You must specify the external file first. To do this,
highlight the script cast member and use the Property Inspector in
Director to specify the 'Link As' file. Note that Director cache's
this file inside your .dir so you won't need to distribute the .js
source with your project.