Script Only Stack Architecture

[William Prothero]

Richard:
Some of the items were mentioned in Bramanathaswami’s post. Some, of course, is just taste. I put almost all of my code in substacks, but haven’t tried text only stacks yet. I can’t see having a jillion small text files to keep track of. But then, a lot of folks seem to love them, so I wonder at the advantages. Of course, there’s the github thing. I work by myself, so that isn’t a factor, but I can see it would be major for teams.

Code that’s portable between apps is important. Perhaps that would be something to discuss. And I really haven’t messed with implementing personal code “Libraries”. The requirement for strict ID’s for behaviors makes them less portable. Do text only stacks help in this regard?

So, I think what I’m “seconding” is that a higher lever than “newby” tutorials on code organization through Libraries, Text only stacks, substacks, etc, would be useful and I would give it a hard look-see. Currently, I’m pretty satisfied with my current approach, but over the last year, I’ve changed it so much as I learned more about LiveCode, that I wonder what I’m missing.

Thanks, Richard, for all your comments and help on this list.
Best,
Bill

> On Mar 29, 2016, at 1:58 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> 
> William Prothero wrote:
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>> Organizing the code in a project is really important and there are lots of ways to go wrong.
> 
> Can you describe some?
> 
> While documenting good patterns can be useful, sometimes documenting anti-patterns is just as useful.
> 
> Several years ago at one of the LC conferences in Monterey Ken Ray and I did a talk called "LiveCode Patterns and Anti-Patterns".  So much has changed since then (behaviors, before and after messages, script-only stacks, etc.) that it would be very helpful to hear your concerns as I prepare to dive into my archives for the old notes....
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