List of handlers - snake

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Hi everyone,

While you're on this exploration topic, in HyperCard we had a routine with the word "snake" in it as I recall. It could be used from the message box and it would take you through all of the open stacks, including the stacks in use, and the objects within the stacks, one by one, opening any script that contained the word or phrase for which you started searching. You could edit the newly opened script, close it, and the search would continue until ever instance of the word or phrase had been exposed. 

I've not noticed a similar routine in LC. It was my favorite debugging tool. I believe it could also be called from within a script. It was absolutely super. It may have been an XCMD.

It would be wonderful if we had such a critter in LC.
 
Joe Lewis Wilkins
Architect

On Sep 9, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Roger Eller wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Chip Thomas <livecode.list at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hey all, is there a way to get a list of handlers within a control?
>> 
>> Or see if a handler/function exists?
>> 
>> Thanks!
> 
> 
> put the script of <your object here> into tHandList
> filter tHandList with "*on" & space & "*" -- just for readability... could
> also be "*on *"
> answer tHandList
> 
> put the script of <your object here> into tFuncList
> filter tFuncList with "*function" & space & "*" -- just for readability...
> could also be "*function *"
> answer tFuncList
> 
> ˜Roger