Set Script Limits in Standalones

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Tue Jan 27 14:02:13 EST 2015


Ray wrote:

 > What I'm actually doing is executing something like 'set the
 > script of button myButton to myScript' where myScript is greater
 > than 16 lines.  Historically this has worked in the IDE but
 > fails in the standalone because of the limitation.

That should be possible now, but tread carefully:  self-modifying 
scripts are difficult to debug.

Would behaviors provide a simpler and possibly more efficient solution 
for what you need?


 > "Raney"  Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time.  I
 > didn't know Scott had a doctoral degree and I hope he was never
 > offended that I didn't address him with this title.  I wonder
 > what he's doing these days?

For a few years following the acquisition of MetaCard by RunRev he was 
sailing the Caribbean.  Last I heard he's stateside again, and beginning 
to get back into programming after enjoying his long break.

-- 
  Richard Gaskin
  LiveCode Community Manager
  richard at livecode.org





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