Best way to extend IDE (toolbar)?

[Mike Kerner]

Sorry!  .livecodescript is the suffix
I'm don't know where script-only stacks are documented, other than in
conversations, here, but there are plenty of them in the LC bundle.  For
example, look in Contents->Tools->Toolset->Libraries, or
Contents->Tools->Toolset->Palettes->Script Editor->Behaviors.  It just
looks like a regular LC script.
You could also build this as a widget in LC8.  The syntax for
liveCodeBuilder is a different, but I hear a vicious rumor that there is an
LCB class that is extensive, mostly done, has been tried out on a few
people, and is being actively tweaked to prepare it for release.
What I meant by an IDE Extension was a stack that you build in LC and stick
in My LiveCode->Extensions or My LiveCode->Plugins, and then tell LC to run
at startup in the Development->Plugins->Plugin settings menu

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 8:41 AM, Ben Rubinstein <benr_mc at cogapp.com> wrote:

> Hi Mike, thanks for responding.
>
> > Funny you should bring this up, as I spent most of yesterday in the
> script
> > editor, which is a bunch of script-only stacks (text files with LC script
> > in them with the ".livecode" suffix).
>
> Do you (does anyone) know where script-only stacks are actually
> documented? I can't find it in the User Guide - I see references in the
> release notes to changes relating, I'm vaguely aware from mailing lists of
> conversations about them; but I can't find anything for a new person to
> discover that these exist, how they are used, what are the constraints, etc.
>
> For example, do they really have the same suffix as traditional stack
> files? That seems pretty odd.
>
> > a) What are you adding, and would this be something that my long-standing
> > goal of hoarde-sourcing the IDE might want to add to the to-do list?
>
> My toolbar is a rag-bag of things I've found useful over the years; the
> most important is 'backup+save', which I've used since the pre-history of
> Revolution (before 1.0) when crashes were uncomfortably common. Also
> shortcut buttons to edit stack and card scripts, to open the Application
> Overview, to edit recent scripts (popup keeps track of five most recent),
> to paste object references into scripts (currently broken due to some bugs
> in LC8), to build a standalone with automatic versioning, to fish windows
> that have slipped under the toolbar back into the useable area, etc etc
> etc...
>
> Dunno about the horde-sourcing - it's a question of what's useful to who.
> Maybe if there was a convenient way to maintain a library of such things
> which could easily be selected from.
>
> > b) Instead of adding a palette, why not just expand the toolbar itself
> and
> > add to it?
>
> Because at any time I maintain lots of versions of LiveCode, and I prefer
> to keep the distribution 'clean'.
>
> > c) This sounds like it might be a good chance to build an IDE extension,
> > which can be fairly easy to do.
>
> Aha! So there is a thing called an "IDE extension"? That sounds like what
> I might be looking for. Where is this documented, how does it differ from
> plugins, widgets, libraries etc?
>
> TIA,
>
> Ben
>
>
> On 12/09/2016 13:27, Mike Kerner wrote:
>
>> Hey, Ben,
>> Funny you should bring this up, as I spent most of yesterday in the script
>> editor, which is a bunch of script-only stacks (text files with LC script
>> in them with the ".livecode" suffix).
>> a) What are you adding, and would this be something that my long-standing
>> goal of hoarde-sourcing the IDE might want to add to the to-do list?
>> b) Instead of adding a palette, why not just expand the toolbar itself and
>> add to it?
>> c) This sounds like it might be a good chance to build an IDE extension,
>> which can be fairly easy to do.
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