Re: Lock screen challenge

On 11/22/22 3:27 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: One option to use an external editor would be ScriptTracker. You could export the scripts, do your bulk changes, and then import them back. That's worth a thought. Thanks. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: Lock screen challenge

On 11/22/22 3:08 PM, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode wrote: A random thought: if you converted to script-only stack behaviors first, then you would have a bunch of text files you can use whatever tool you like on. This project is a huge HC world. There are a lot of stacks, hundreds of cards, and

Re: Lock screen challenge

Landman Gay Subject: Re: Lock screen challenge Thanks to both you and Craig. I couldn't think of any other way to do it either, but was hoping there was something other than brute force. Magic, maybe. It took LC's search/replace dialog a long time just to find all the instances, and actual

RE: Lock screen challenge

ecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of J. Landman Gay via use-livecode Sent: Monday, November 21, 2022 10:48 PM To: How to use LiveCode Cc: J. Landman Gay Subject: Re: Lock screen challenge Thanks to both you and Craig. I couldn't think of any other way to do it either, but was hoping there was so

Re: Lock screen challenge

Yep, that makes sense. Looks nice! On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 1:28 PM Brian Milby via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > One option to use an external editor would be ScriptTracker. You could > export the scripts, do your bulk changes, and then import them back. > > Brian Milby

Re: Lock screen challenge

One small point on this: it doesn't matter since we're dealing with HC files here, but in LC there can be backgrounds that don't appear on any card. So it would be necessary to add: repeat with j = 1 to the number of backgrounds in stack i repeat with k= 1 to the number of controls of

Re: Lock screen challenge

One option to use an external editor would be ScriptTracker. You could export the scripts, do your bulk changes, and then import them back. Brian Milby br...@milby7.com > On Nov 22, 2022, at 4:10 PM, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode > wrote: > > A random thought: if you converted to

Re: Lock screen challenge

My first thought is to export all scripts to a single file, with customized headers for each object (maybe with a user-definable format). Then look for that same format when pasting, to restore/update the scripts. Does that make sense? Or would it be better to have an export function to create

Re: Lock screen challenge

Navigator has support for test-based filtering of controls, and can copy/paste scripts, but it doesn't support copying/pasting to more than one control at a time. That would be an interesting problem to solve. What's your time frame? gc On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 1:25 PM J. Landman Gay via

Re: Lock screen challenge

A random thought: if you converted to script-only stack behaviors first, then you would have a bunch of text files you can use whatever tool you like on. gc On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 1:25 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I'm updating a very old set of

Re: Lock screen challenge

I resemble that remark! j > On Nov 21, 2022, at 7:47 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > more old-timers ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Lock screen challenge

Thanks to both you and Craig. I couldn't think of any other way to do it either, but was hoping there was something other than brute force. Magic, maybe. It took LC's search/replace dialog a long time just to find all the instances, and actually editing them will be longer. But, it's just a

Re: Lock screen challenge

I was also going to suggest just brute forcing it. Something like: (code not complete or syntax checked) repeat with i=1 to the number of stacks   repeat with j = 1 to the number of cards in stack i     repeat with k= 1 to the number of controls of card j of stack i   put the script of

Re: Lock screen challenge

Jacque. Why aren’t you on the forum? Cant you just loop through each line in your handlers, and find the ones that contain “lock screen”, both with and without the visual effect thing. Search downstream until you find the “unlock” line, That gives you the start and finish lines for each

Lock screen challenge

I'm updating a very old set of stacks that use old HC syntax for "lock screen". A search with LC's Find utility says there are 723 instances that may need to be changed. Right now they look like this: lock screen -- do any number of things unlock screen with These all need to be changed to: