Recreating a binary stack from xml text

[Geoff Canyon Rev]

Fair point. One thing I find interesting is how each environment I use
brings something to the table that no other environment does (as well). For
LiveCode, it's the built-in GUI builder and the interactive development.

For FileMaker, it's the easy database, but equally important, it's the fact
that all items -- scripts, layouts, columns, tables, etc. -- are abstracted
from their names. In FileMaker, if you change the name of a table, then
everywhere in any script that refers to that table, the script changes
automatically to match. Change a layout name, same thing. That's something
I wish every environment I use could have. Given that FileMaker has had
this since at least 1994 or so, it's frustrating that no one else has
picked it up. It's one of those things that seems obvious once you've
experienced it </rant>

So I agree, reconciling the source when someone changes the name of an
object would be a pain.

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:

> I only mention card locking because the elements of a card typically
> interact with each other quite a bit. Imagine someone renaming a button
> that a card script accessed by name, or a field that was critical to saving
> data to a database. Also the process of checking out and in every object in
> a card could induce insanity.
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Feb 20, 2012, at 10:41 AM, gcanyon+rev wrote:
>
> > Agreed that a full implementation would be better; I'm just saying that,
> compared to the present setup, where there is no source control whatsoever,
> a system that at least allowed merging code in a controlled fashion would
> be a huge improvement.
> >
> > I would hope we can do better than card-level locking, but better that
> than nothing at all.
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
>
>
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