spitting nails at the IDE

[Richmond]

On 09/04/2013 09:58 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Looking in the mail list archives, about Undo/Redo
> I found this:
>
> http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Creating-an-Undo-palette-td4170194.html#a4173548
>
> http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ANN-penTool-0-3-2h-with-scalable-gradients-td4653241i40.html#a4653582
>
> http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=588
>
> http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/What-should-an-undo-redo-mechanism-do-td4483466.html
>
> But, maybe it's easier to add a backscript or frontscript that intercept the
> action of deleting a control and ask for confirmatiion...
>
> Al
>
>
>

It wasn't until I read the bits of this thread that I realised how much 
I rely on
multiple undos in the other programs I use: GIMP and Font Forge.

The 'obvious' way round the lack of multiple undos with Livecode is to 
save sequentially numbered backups
after every action (although it would gum up even fairly large hard 
disks fairly quickly): one could set a script
in the "revMenubar" stack (of the Community version, at least) to do this.

However that is far from satisfactory.

Multiple undos do not strike me as vital with regard to plonking objects 
on cards,

but they would be rather a good thing (at least, let's say, 10 actions 
back) in the script editor as
I, for one, merrily type away and find that I often have to spend ages 
working out what I put into
a script over the last 20 minutes when something goes squishy.

Richmond.