closeControl -- "switchable" ?

[dunbarx at aol.com]

Hi.
"SetControl" doesn't take a parameter, as far as I know, so a switch control structure would have to be managed by hand, perhaps looping through all the groups (or other controls of interest) on the card that one just navigated away from.
Craig



-----Original Message-----
From: Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
To: How LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Cc: Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami <brahma at hindu.org>
Sent: Tue, Jan 21, 2020 9:12 am
Subject: closeControl -- "switchable" ?

Using text only script behavior files has advantages and disadvantages. One "con" is the possibility of "rapid profileration" of text scripts (behavior, model, libraries etc.) 

 Your app could easily become like some horrendous-humongous PHP or JS framework with 100's of "dependencies."

I am trying control this by working with my "stories" module/stack, by just using two script

model_Story.livecodescript         
    # always "on" like a library/backscript, get stuff of disk
behavior_Story.livecodescript     
    # which is assigned to the stack, handled the UI/UX for stack

This approach requires a lot "Switch cases" as you may be targeting the UI/UX of many different groups  on the card or different cards. 

So far I am happy that I am having to  debug  just two scripts to manage "everything" 

But I have question on "closeControl" for which there may be many groups on a single card

is it "Switchable?"  and can we use it in a single behavior that "looks at"  many groups on one card?

on closeControl pControl
    switch pControl
        case "homeStory"
            setPref "preferences/modules/portal/story/storyTitle", pStoryTitle
            setPref "preferences/modules/portal/story/storyScene/", sLastScene
        case "storyMenu"
            put empty into fld "storyMenuFld"
        end switch
end closeControl

Of I can hack around and find out if it works. But I am thinking over otherd have 
"been here, done that". an have some advice...

We might as well use "on closeCard" 

any thoughts?




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