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 probably thousands of controls. It's written the old HC way, so behaviors probably wouldn't help; almost every control is independent and performs a different action. I've already converted the few common actions to a backscript, but there's nothing much to hang a behavior on.
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?
Indeterminate, but not infinite. ;) I won't need to copy scripts though, every one of them is different. It's truly old-style HC. In fact, I'm still running with HCAddressing set to true, which breaks the property inspector a lot. My next task is to get rid of that.
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 individual files, one ofr each control, with the script in the file? That's probably more robust, but not everyone knows how to make bulk changes to a bunch of text files.
Either way would probably work for most things, though if you exported all the controls in this project to a single file, you'd have a 20 MB novel. TBH, I already have a handler somewhere that writes out all scripts in a stack with headers; an old HC friend wrote it 30 years ago and it still works. Maybe I can dig that up.
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