Opening a Supercard file in Livecode?

[Pete]

Probably not worth the time/payback as a translation tool but how about as
part of a version control system?  VC systems almost always have a function
that will list the differences between two versions of code, but it's hard
to that with LC since everything is buried in the stack file. If there was
a way to export a stack file to some sort of text format, comparisons
become possible, not only for scripts but for objects
added/deleted/changed/etc.
Pete

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:52 PM, stephen barncard <
stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:

> Still, was it smart enough to figure out 'binary' features of Livecode that
> give speed and performance such as "repeat for each", etc.  and
> multi-dimensional Arrays and the UI features such as the datagrid ?
>
> The 'translation'  could end up being a convoluted mess, hard to
> debug/understand. And there is so much more to Livecode now than what was
> available in Metacard.
>
> I think most here would agree for anything but the most basic stacks that
> it's still better to do a translation by hand.
>
> It could always be done, but is it worth the time?
>
> On 22 January 2012 13:41, Mark Schonewille <
> m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
> > wrote:
>
> > Hi Bob,
> >
> > There used to be a SuperCard-to-MetaCard converter.
> >
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> > Op 22-jan-2012, om 22:20 heeft Bob Earp het volgende geschreven:
> >
> >
> >  Far be it for me to question your wisdom here Jacque, but are you sure
> >> this is true for Rev (not LC) ?
> >>
> >> I went from HC to SC to ToolBook and then Rev, and at the time of
> looking
> >> at Rev, I can remember one of the enticements for moving was the
> ability to
> >> import HC & SC into Rev.  I knew a bunch of guys at Allegiant back then,
> >> and thought that the SC format was not that different from HC, and very
> >> similar to MetaCard.
> >>
> >> I also seem to remember somebody writing a translator from TB to Rev,
> >> which basically dumped a text file description of every object with
> their
> >> scripts, and then built a stack from that in Rev. The only problem was
> that
> >> Rev did things so much better in some areas, most of the time it was
> more
> >> beneficial to  rebuild the TB project into a new Rev stack, and only use
> >> the valuable stuff like media.
> >>
> >> Then again, maybe I'm just getting old and my memory is playing tricks
> ;-)
> >>
> >> best, Bob...
> >>
> >
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