Hi Igor Firstly, g'day from Tas ;-)
Secondly your preferences and undo questions might indicate you haven't seen the GLX app framework yet. Take a look at: http://revolution.screenstepslive.com/s/revolution/m/glxapp Cheers Monte On 27/05/2012, at 12:42 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote: > Dear LiveCode Experts, > > A reliable UNDO mechanism is an essential part of most desktop apps. > Programming UNDO functionality, however, is not a trivial task, and it > usually involves quite a bit of meta-programming: turning function calls into > stackable objects, assembling the undo/redo stacks, keeping track of the > undo/redo position in the stack, and updating the Undo/Redo menus. > > To help programmers overcome all this complexity, most frameworks have some > sort of 'UndoManager' class or library, that makes it easier on the developer > to implement this functionality in their apps. > > I have not been able to find any documentation on how to do this with > LiveCode, and I'm getting quite confused and bogged down trying to think of > how to go about implementing something from scratch. I have seen how so many > programmers in this list have been developing *all* kinds of applications > with LiveCode, seemingly for many years, and therefore I assume that there > *must* be a way to implement an undo mechanism in LiveCode, which I'm > missing... > > How do you do it? How do you implement UNDO in your applications? Is there a > generic mechanism or technique that you use, or do you re-invent the wheel > with every project? > > Any guidance will be enormously appreciated. > > -- > Igor Couto > Sydney, Australia > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- M E R Goulding Software development services Bespoke application development for vertical markets mergExt - There's an external for that! _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
