I'm starting to make more use of library stacks (partly because I'm
trying to switch away from revIgniter to a CGI-based solution to allow
me to do more work & debugging in the IDE).
And now I'm looking for best-practice and/or suggestions for how to use
library stacks. The not-quite-obvious context is that if some other
library is later put into use, and it has no librarystack handler, then
the librarystack message can get through to my (already in use) library.
My naive approach (from non-LC background) was very simple :
all initialisation would be done in the librarystack handler
that handler would also set a script-local variable to avoid repeated
initialisation
so something like
local sIHaveBeenInitialized
on librarystack
if sIHaveBeenInitialized is empty then
put the millisecs into sIHaveBeenInitialized
else
-- setup initial / default values, etc.
....
end if
end librarystack
This is fine for subsequent usage of the library - however, it's not so
convenient while working on the library. The problem then is that any
changes made to the initialization won't take effect unless I either
manually unset this script-local, or exit / re-enter the IDE.
I thought about adding a reset handler, e.g.
on library_reset
put empty int sIHaveBeenInitialized
pass library_reset
end library_reset
which would give me a quick, safe and easy way to reset any (all)
libraries from the message box. But then I thought it felt like I was
rediscovering a wheel - so I thought I'd ask on here :-)
Is there another easier / better way to handle this ?
Thanks
Alex.
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