Hallo Jacqueline,
Well I wouldn’t expect you asking such a question..!
Scanning all the concerned script, get nScript and set nScript
…
put replacetexte (nScript, „screen“, „screen with visual effect“) into nScript
…
or for safer result (to turn around eventual individual „screen" chunk) of
varying blank width) something like this should also works:
….
put 0 into n0
Repeat
put wordoffset(„screen", nScript, n0) into n00
If n00 is 0 then exit repeat
Add n00 to n0
If „lock“ is char -4 to -1 of word n0-1 of nScript then put „ visual
effect" after word n0 of nScript
End repeat
….
Safer seems not to be possible!
Jean-Jacques Wagner
(Involved since 20 years in only one for ever lasting patent process)
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> 1. Lock screen challenge (J. Landman Gay)
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> 3. Re: Lock screen challenge (Paul Dupuis)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:24:15 -0600
> From: "J. Landman Gay" <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>
> To: LiveCode Mailing List <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Lock screen challenge
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> 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 <effect>
>
> These all need to be changed to:
>
> lock screen for visual effect
> -- do any number of things
> unlock screen with visual effect <effect>
>
> The challenge is that not all "lock screen" commands use a visual effect,
> some are simple
> lock/unlock pairs. I need to automate this. The visual effects are not all
> the same. Some
> handlers have multiple instances of locking the screen with or without a
> visual effect.
>
> I'd use a regex if I could, but back references aren't supported (or are they
> now?) I really
> don't want to do this manually.
>
> --
> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 16:30:57 -0500
> From: Craig Newman <cr...@starfirelighting.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Re: Lock screen challenge
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> 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 handler. Then you can just replace the start and finish
> lines with the new ones.
>
> Am I missing this?
>
> Craig
>
>> On Nov 21, 2022, at 4:24 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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 <effect>
>>
>> These all need to be changed to:
>>
>> lock screen for visual effect
>> -- do any number of things
>> unlock screen with visual effect <effect>
>>
>> The challenge is that not all "lock screen" commands use a visual effect,
>> some are simple lock/unlock pairs. I need to automate this. The visual
>> effects are not all the same. Some handlers have multiple instances of
>> locking the screen with or without a visual effect.
>>
>> I'd use a regex if I could, but back references aren't supported (or are
>> they now?) I really don't want to do this manually.
>>
>> --
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 16:43:08 -0500
> From: Paul Dupuis <p...@researchware.com>
> To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: Lock screen challenge
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> 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 control k of card j of stack i into tScript
> ????? -- look through the lines of tScript for "lock screen", note the
> line number A, then search from there onward for "unlock screen" and
> note the line number B
> ????? -- if line B begins with (after trimming spaces) "unlock screen
> with" then
> ???????? -- replace line B with "unlock screen with visual effect"
> ??????? -- and replace line A with "lock screen for visual effect"
> ??? end repeat
> ? end repeat
> end repeat
>
>
> On 11/21/2022 4:30 PM, Craig Newman via use-livecode wrote:
>> 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 handler. Then you can just replace the start and
>> finish lines with the new ones.
>>
>> Am I missing this?
>>
>> Craig
>>
>>> On Nov 21, 2022, at 4:24 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
>>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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 <effect>
>>>
>>> These all need to be changed to:
>>>
>>> lock screen for visual effect
>>> -- do any number of things
>>> unlock screen with visual effect <effect>
>>>
>>> The challenge is that not all "lock screen" commands use a visual effect,
>>> some are simple lock/unlock pairs. I need to automate this. The visual
>>> effects are not all the same. Some handlers have multiple instances of
>>> locking the screen with or without a visual effect.
>>>
>>> I'd use a regex if I could, but back references aren't supported (or are
>>> they now?) I really don't want to do this manually.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
>>> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>>>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 21:47:57 -0600
> From: "J. Landman Gay" <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Re: Lock screen challenge
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> 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 one-off.
>
> Craig, I posted here because I more comfortable with it, and because more
> old-timers tend to be on the list.
>
> --
> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
> On November 21, 2022 3:45:16 PM Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> 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 control k of card j of stack i into tScript
>> -- look through the lines of tScript for "lock screen", note the
>> line number A, then search from there onward for "unlock screen" and
>> note the line number B
>> -- if line B begins with (after trimming spaces) "unlock screen
>> with" then
>> -- replace line B with "unlock screen with visual effect"
>> -- and replace line A with "lock screen for visual effect"
>> end repeat
>> end repeat
>> end repeat
>>
>>
>> On 11/21/2022 4:30 PM, Craig Newman via use-livecode wrote:
>>> 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 handler. Then you can just replace the
>>> start and finish lines with the new ones.
>>>
>>> Am I missing this?
>>>
>>> Craig
>>>
>>>> On Nov 21, 2022, at 4:24 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
>>>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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 <effect>
>>>>
>>>> These all need to be changed to:
>>>>
>>>> lock screen for visual effect
>>>> -- do any number of things
>>>> unlock screen with visual effect <effect>
>>>>
>>>> The challenge is that not all "lock screen" commands use a visual effect,
>>>> some are simple lock/unlock pairs. I need to automate this. The visual
>>>> effects are not all the same. Some handlers have multiple instances of
>>>> locking the screen with or without a visual effect.
>>>>
>>>> I'd use a regex if I could, but back references aren't supported (or are
>>>> they now?) I really don't want to do this manually.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
>>>> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>>>>
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