Do script-only stacks support "chained" behaviors?

[Monte Goulding]

Cool, scriptifier was/is just a tool I wrote because it took about the same about of time to write as to tediously scriptify a stack so I thought it would be a win in the end. If anyone is keen to make it more robust or start from scratch then have at it. FWIW it would probably be a good idea to check scriptified scripts for the conditional messages that are only sent if an object has them (idle, mouseStillDown etc) and warn about scriptifying those. We got caught with idle in an old script in an IDE stack once.

Cheers

Monte

> On 21 Jan 2018, at 6:28 pm, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> At a fundamental level (unless I'm misreading it) Scriptifier parses a
> whole stack and looks for objects with a script and no behavior, and turns
> them into an object with no script and a script-only stack behavior.
> Navigator will work on whatever controls you tell it to, and will look for
> objects with a script and no behavior, and turn them into an object with no
> script and a script-only stack behavior, but it will also find objects with
> a button behavior (that does not itself have a behavior), and create a
> script-only stack with that button's script, and set those objects'
> behavior to the resulting stacks (and the original button, so if there are
> unconverted controls, they'll still work. I'm definitely going to have to
> add an "and enclosed controls" option in Navigator. There are several other
> differences, as there always will be when two different people look at a
> problem.
> 
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 11:01 PM, Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I built my own, for several reasons, among them:
>> 
>> 1. In the context of Navigator, I needed to support creating stack
>> behaviors for an arbitrary collection of controls, rather than recursing
>> through a stack.
>> 2. I figured that Monte and I would approach the task differently, and we
>> did on several fronts.
>> 3. I thought it would be fun to code. (and it was, I royally borked my
>> first implementation in the product definition phase)
>> 
>> I just ran my first test, and it seems to be working.
>> 
>> I'm going to build some more tests for it, then release it with stern
>> warnings that anyone using it on a non-backed-up project is foolish, and I
>> am not responsible for the horrible things they do with it. It should be
>> available sometime tomorrow.
>> 
>> gc
>> 
>> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 7:16 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Dumb question, Geoff, are you going to embed/call Scriptifier to achieve
>>> that or are you going to do something else?
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 8:25 PM, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode <
>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I get that it can be done, I just hesitate to start monkeying with
>>> people's
>>>> scripts like that in Navigator (which is going to have a conversion
>>>> function in the next update). For now I'm thinking that I just skip
>>>> anything with chained behaviors, unless someone has a better suggestion.
>>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 5:15 PM, Trevor DeVore via use-livecode <
>>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> For now I just set the chained behaviors for any script only stacks
>>> that
>>>>> require them when the app starts up. Not ideal, but worth it in order
>>> to
>>>>> manage the scripts with source control.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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