Opening a Supercard file in Livecode?

[stephen barncard]

uniquely naming all objects and using 'get the id of object <name>'
 instead of using any IDs at all would seem to solve this problem...

of course would have to be a convention when starting a project.

why wouldn't this work?

On 24 January 2012 13:20, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:

> Yes the more I think about it, the more tedious it becomes. It seems the
> only way to do multiuser dev is to have the source stack available to a
> kind of checkout engine. A dev would have to check out an object at which
> point it would be unavailable to any other user. And you would have to have
> a running copy that was the exact replica of the original including ID's.
> Not sure how to do that.
>
> Way back when some made the argument that it was a bad idea to use ID's as
> references to objects. Now it seems we understand much more how true that
> is. We are beyond the point of know return now. :-)
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Jan 24, 2012, at 11:59 AM, Pete wrote:
>
> > Bob,
> > I think you'd have to find some way to preserve object IDs or a lot of
> > stuff would break.  Datagrids, for example, store the row template as a
> > long id.  And, as you pointed out, behaviors.
>
>
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