Yes, better to leave in place.. i.e. behavior buttons with no scripts, now
assigned behavior to external file.
We are using a JSON file on disk that we read in to set the stack files on
start up, because with a team, things get crazy if you have this in the binary.
One Caveat
the PB does not show that objects with the assigned behavior to a button with
no script… has any code … it shows
0 lines of code, when in fact the behavior assigned to the button which is
assigned to that object *is* in the msg path.
Other caveats: I am getting "bitten" by ambiguity of "me" in scripts. but
that is a different subject. for mobile, timin is everything and we are
frequently needing to allow 200 milliseconds, 500 etc before calling some other
handler, while the UI gets updated. So typically the events we want to fire are
in the same "library" but you can do
Send to me
you have to declare "this stack" to "stack "suchAndSuch" (which is the actual
name of the file with these handlers)
Svasti Astu, Be Well
Brahmanathaswami
www.himalayanacademy.com
On 7/30/17, 10:28 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Monte Goulding via
use-livecode" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>On 31 Jul 2017, at 3:50 am, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>"Entralled with external scripts and GIT are We" says Yoda
I have implemented a scriptifier utility script if you are interested here
https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/5600<https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/5600>
It parses all objects in a stack looking for non-trivial scripts then
generates a unique name based on object hierarchy and saves the script only
stacks in a folder with the same name as the stack filename and sets the
stackFiles appropriately. We have used it on some stacks in the IDE (the
installer and the IDE startup stack) and have only found one side effect so far
in an old script that used idle. Idle is only sent to objects that implement it
and is not detected in their behaviors. For simplicity the script ignores any
objects that already have behaviors as if you want a behavior hierarchy of
script only stacks you need to script that when they are loaded.
>It this bad practice? Of course it is a trivial matter to make a direct
assignment to the external file since it is in the stack files
My scriptifier (being a bit dumb about such matters) would do something
similar when it encounters an object that is a behavior button used elsewhere.
The behavior button scriipt will be exported and the hierarchy will be
established. We haven’t noticed any issues with this although it probably
wouldn’t take long to tweak the scriptifier to delete the button and set the
behavior directly that would impact resource resolution like finding icons so
it’s better to leave it in place. Such things are better done manually if
necessary.
Cheers
Monte
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