sharedscripts

[J. Landman Gay]

On 2/24/05 12:43 AM, Rob Meijer wrote:

> Your suggestion to use "set the script of fld "content" to the script of 
> btn "wijzigen"
> was the first statement I tried. I put it as last statment into a 
> handler, but got
> the errormessage that a script cannot be altered while running.
> Then I tried "send foo", foo being a handler in de stackscript. Same 
> errormessage,
> because what I need is not to execute handler "foo", but to replace the 
> script of a field.
> Example.
> 1.
> The listfield is an index. Clicking a line opens a card:
> on mouseup;get selectedtext;go card it
> 2.
> A button is pressed to get a new script into that field.
> Now that field may delete a card.
> Or a button is pressed to get a new script into that field.
> Now that field may change the content of a card.
> 3.
> Here comes the problem:
> The main task of the listfield is being an index to go to a card.
> So I need a statement on the end of each script to reset the script
> of that listfield to "on mouseup;get selectedtext;go card it".
> This is easily done in Toolbook, but I can't find it in Transscript.

This isn't how we usually do it in Revolution. In general, scripts 
themselves are rarely changed, and in fact, if you compile a stack into 
a standalone there are strict limits on replacing scripts so it isn't a 
practical approach.

Instead, the scripts should be unchanging and branch to the correct 
behavior instead of trying to replace themselves. This allows one script 
to handle all circumstances. It is also much easier than replacing the 
script content.

Do something like this instead:

Set up three radio buttons, one for "go card", another for "delete card" 
and a third for "change contents". Group them. This ensures that only 
one can be hilited at a time. Then your field script should do this:

on mouseUp
  put the selectedtext of me into theCd
  if the hilite of btn "go card" then
    go card theCd
  else if the hilite of btn "delete card" then
    delete card theCd
  else if the hilite of btn "change contents" then
    -- do whatever you need here
  end if
end mouseUp

One script handles everything. If your actions are lengthy, you can call 
another handler instead of putting the commands directly into the 
"mouseup" handler, like this:

  ...
  else if the hilite of btn "change contents" then
    doCardChanges theCd
  end if
  ...

on doCardChanges theCd
   -- do stuff here to card theCd
end doCardChanges

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