Script Only Stack Architecture

[Peter Haworth]

"start using" puts all handlers in the stack into the message path as front
scripts which is why all your mouseUp messages are being caught.

If your script-only stack is a separate main stack from your application's
main stack, just open the script-only stack in the preOpenxxx handler of
your app's main stack.  I haven't used script-only stacks yet but I think
they could be included in your app as substacks rather than separate main
stacks, then you wouldn;t need to do anything special after opening your
app's main stack.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 4:03 PM Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami <brahma at hindu.org>
wrote:

> Monte:
>
> Thanks for the thoughtful response.
>
> For now, even the basics would help... in the dictionary... I had to test
> this morning to learn things that could all be placed on a single page of
> documentation
>
> 1) create a script only stack. Save to disk and leave open call it
> "behavior-field-text.livecodescript)
> 2) create field; set behavior, aha! my new script only stack is available.
> 3) assign the stack to the field  -- should accept on mousup, field is
> locked and the behavior refers to "me") for testing the behavior stack has
> a simple:
>
>
> on mouseup
>
> answer "from stack behavior"
>
> put the formattedheight of me into tTotalTextHeight
>
> put ( the height of me - tTotalTextHeight ) / 2 into tTopBottomMargins
>
> set topmargin of me to tTopBottomMargins
>
> end mouseUp
>
> 4) lock field, click on field... nothing happens .... aaaahhh (blink)
>
> 5) go to the message box... on a hunch type
>
> "start using behavior-field-text.livecodesript"
>
> 6) click on field ... Oh, it works now!
>
> 7) save stack quit LC
>
> 8) boot LC again... open main stack with field that has the behavior
>
> 9) click on field that has behavior assign, Oh gosh... now it doesn't work.
>
> 10) But wait... inspect field  the behavior is assigned to
> "behavior-field-text.livecodesript"
> -- Why doesnt' it work... duh
>
> 11) to go main stack, preopenstack handler  add this:
>
> put specialFolderPath("Resources") into tAppRoot
> start using stack (tAppRoot
> &"/"&"/main-stack-scripts/behaviors/sv_field-behaviors.livecode"
>
> 12) from msg box run "preopenstack" -- my behavior stack is now in use,
> theoretically.
>
> 13) Note that only one  field has this stack behavior assigned
>
> but now: any mouseup anywhere on the UI triggers the script.. mouseup msg
> from anywhere is intercepted by the script-only-stack that is assigned to
> just a single field.
>
> Also: reference to "me" obviously lost and the behavior script thinks "me"
> refers to itself and not the child field.
>
>
> [X] executing at 12:42:02 PM<
> http://airmail.calendar/2016-03-30%2012:42:02%20HST>
>
> Type Object: does not have this property
>
> Object sv_field-behaviors
>
> Line put the formattedheight of me into tTotalTextHeight
>
> Hint mouseup
>
>
> 14) move that script to a button... change the field behavior to that
> button.
>
>
> on mouseup
>
> answer "from btn behavior"
>
> put the formattedheight of me into tTotalTextHeight
>
> put ( the height of me - tTotalTextHeight ) / 2 into tTopBottomMargins
>
> set topmargin of me to tTopBottomMargins
>
> end mouseUp
>
>
> and it works out of the box...
>
>
> --- pretty much a complete nightmare...lost all day yesterday<
> http://airmail.calendar/2016-03-29%2012:00:00%20HST> and all morning
> today<http://airmail.calendar/2016-03-30%2012:00:00%20HST>...
>
> Sure what I hope for is a full scope architecture thing...
>
> but for now: We are  not asking for a lot, just enough to understand how
> to make it work?
>
> Since this model has been in use since 6.5 or something like that...
> clearly it works.  Can we just document how?
>
> unable to assign behavior to script-only-stack.
>
>
>  What am I Missing?
>
> BR
>
>
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