[ANN] - MaterLibrary Version 8 is available

[Michael Doub]

I will be happy to add to the library.   Just send contributions to me 
off list and I will be happy to integrate them in and push a release.

I seem to always find something to tinker with.   I found and fixed a 
few more bugs this morning, as you might expect just AFTER I made a 
version available.   So I added a new version check when the stack 
opens.  Now I can slide in updates without polluting the list with 
announcement messages.   I also enhanced the view code logic so the 
selected handler is always visible.

I am not sure that I totally understand your comment about appending to 
the topic list.   If you mean the topics that are the first level of the 
tree view, they are nothing more than phrases picked up from the 
stylized comments in the btn "Lib":

/* xxx yyy
Syntax:
Examples:
Description:
Source:
xxx */
/* Include
*/

yyy is the part that you called the topic.   It is really all words 
after the xxx.

I thought of something similar to the approach that you suggested when I 
was looking at the different ways to address the dependencies.   I 
really wanted to automate that but I just don't have the compiler 
building skills to put together a livecode parser that could do it 
reliably.  Language parsers, another of the many things I would like to 
better understand.   I ended up doing it the ol' brute force way.  Not 
elegant, but it works.

Regards,
    Mike

On 11/16/14 7:55 AM, Robert Mann wrote:
> Thanjs Michael, great job; I also started to tidy up everything in my libs.
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> How can we participate? submit?
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> *I did not quite get it how one can append the topic list?*
> /If we could, then we could use the same library stack for our own use, and
> easily share to you for appending, or directly to the community as
> specialized libraries./
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> Also for information I thought about another approach ::
> -- load the whole set of libraries needed to code,
> -- then have these copied manual or automated as library stacks for the app.
> -- before actual launching of the app ;; "reduce" these libs : automatically
> eliminate all handlers which are not used to reduce the sizes of libs.
> (although this would require a subtle routine to explore all objects
> recursively and test the whole list of handlers against scripts if any
> exist...)
> food for thoughts,
> Robert
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