Opening a Supercard file in Livecode?

[Richard Gaskin]

Pete wrote:

> All good points.  I guess I'm thinking of a different situation that
> multiple people working on the same project.  When someone reports a bug
> that crept into a particular version of an application, it would be useful
> to see what changes were made to the stack that might have introduced the
> bug.

That's a very good point.

It shouldn't be too hard to write a tool that can examine two sets of 
stack files and produce a list of handlers which have been modified.

It would be a little tricky to write because we can't currently have two 
stacks open with the same name, but I think it may be doable using 
something like this:

The tool would create an array with object references as the primary key 
and handler names as the secondary key, where the value is the handler 
definition itself.

Then after it completes a scan of a given stack, it then goes through 
the other version and compares the same handler definitions, noting 
changes, missing items, and new items, and produces a clickable list of 
changes that could take the developer to the script in question.

I'll add this to my "To Do" list; seems like it would be useful.....

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