6.5.2 Doesn't Remember Script Editor Location

[Ray]

Mark,

I've experimented some today and had 'limited' success.  Here's the best 
I came up with:

on revCloseStack curStack
    try
       set the CurrentRect of stack "ScriptEditorRect" to the rect of 
stack "revNewScriptEditor 1"
    end try
end revCloseStack

on revEditScript
    send "setScriptEditorRect" to me in 10
end revEditScript

on setScriptEditorRect
    set the rect of stack "revNewScriptEditor 1" to the CurrentRect of 
stack "ScriptEditorRect"
end setScriptEditorRect

I had to put the revCloseStack handler in a try/catch since there are no 
parameters sent to the message and "this stack" doesn't reflect whether 
you're closing the script editor or not.  But it does record the 
location and size of where you last had it before closing.

The send command, which I forgot on Friday, didn't work unless I sent it 
in 10 milliseconds.  That's the lowest I could get it down to, and it 
only produced a small amount of 'window jumping' which is acceptable.

The real problem I ran into was the difference between relocating the 
script editor window and resizing it.  Relocating it worked but resizing 
it somehow made Livecode intercept my messages and return it to a 
default location.  And for some weird reason that default location is 
now on my second monitor.

The only way around this 'intercept' was to lock messages just before 
setting the rect of the script editor and then unlock them right 
afterward.  This opened the overall the script editor window to the rect 
I specified, but it left all the controls inside of it as if the window 
had opened in its previous rect which was unacceptable.

So it's still a mess but the upside is I got some good experience 
working with front scripts and plugins which you introduced me to. Thanks!

All of this seems like a lot of work to go through just to get 
Livecode's script editor, the one area where more work is done than 
anywhere else, to behave as it should out of the box.  It may seem like 
a minor thing but if you open and close this window 10 to 15 times a 
minute all day long it, the constant fighting with Livecode for where it 
opens can mean the difference between a productive, fluid and pleasant 
work day and a day which is instead difficult, frustrating stop-and-go 
of constant annoyances diverting your attention away from the job at hand.

I don't think there's any way around this so I'll just leave the bug 
report stand and hope somebody in Edinburgh gets to it.

Thanks,

Ray

On 1/31/2014 6:19 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:
> Hi Ray,
>
> You're doing it wrong. Have a look at the send command in my script. 
> It is quite obvious.
>
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> On 2/1/2014 00:16, Ray wrote:
>> So here's what I'm trying:
>>     Make a stack called "Test Front Script" with the following script in
>> its one and only card:
>>           on revEditScript
>>            answer the openStacks
>>           end revEditScript
>>     Put the "Test Front Script" stack in the Plugins folder
>>     Launch LC and make a New Mainstack
>>     Choose Development/Plugins/Plugin Settings
>>     Choose the Test Front Script, select RevEditScript in the list and
>> close Plugin Settings
>>     Click on Development again, drag to Plugins and choose Test Front
>> Script which opens it
>>
>> The revEditScript message is now trapped when I open the stack script,
>> but just as before, the only stacks listed as the openStacks are:
>>     Test
>>     revTools
>>     Untitled 1
>>     revMenuBar
>>
>> Evidently the "revNewScriptEditor 1" is still not yet in existence and
>> thus can not be located anywhere.  That is, if I leave the script editor
>> window open and open another script I get "revNewScriptEditor 1" listed
>> in the openStacks, but by now it's too late.  The window already opened
>> partially off the screen.
>>
>> Am I doing this right?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ray
>>
>
>
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