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[Geoff Canyon]

To be clear: if anyone wants to try Navigator's export to script behaviors
function -- work on a copy, and I'd love feedback.

On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 10:35 AM Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com> wrote:

> The same applies to the code in Navigator. I wrote it about five years ago
> when I was preparing to transform Navigator itself to use script behaviors.
>
> Always work on a copy.
>
> That said, it worked fine for Navigator, and no one has ever told me it
> broke anything.
>
> gc
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 10:06 PM Pi Digital via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> I tried scriptifier and it broke stuff so just be careful with it and
>> check its output.
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
>> > On 19 Aug 2022, at 01:39, Mike Kerner via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hey Skip, long time...
>> > I don't know if you were around when script-only-stack behaviors came
>> into
>> > being, but you can now rip all of the code out of your stacks and
>> happily
>> > use vc/git. The stacks themselves are still binary (although several of
>> us
>> > have been messing with dumping that paradigm completely, it's less
>> > practical than I would have hoped, as of today).
>> > Navigator will export every script in a project into behavior stacks,
>> and
>> > Monte wrote a stack called "Scriptifier", if memory serves. It's
>> embedded
>> > in the LC bundle, and it does the same thing, namely extracting all the
>> > scripts out of a project and putting them into .livecodescript text
>> files.
>> > Levure is great. I have used it with every project I've worked on for
>> > several years, BUT you don't have to use it to go this route.
>> >
>> >> On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 7:04 PM Martin Koob via use-livecode <
>> >> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi SKIP
>> >>
>> >> Welcome back to the list!
>> >>
>> >> There is Levure which I knew of as a third party application framework
>> >> created by Trevor DeVore but I just did a search for it and I see it
>> now on
>> >> the LiveCode website described as an App Collaboration Framework.
>> >> https://livecode.com/products/livecode-platform/levure/ <
>> >> https://livecode.com/products/livecode-platform/levure/>  So it must
>> have
>> >> at some point migrated to the mother ship.
>> >>
>> >> I haven’t used it but I have considered migrating my application to it.
>> >> It works with version control systems as long as you follow its
>> >> recommendations about how to organize your code into behaviours that
>> are
>> >> stored in script only stacks which are just text files that a version
>> >> control system can read (These are somewhat new so depending on when
>> you
>> >> last used LiveCode they may be new to you.)  This was an enhancement
>> that
>> >> has enabled the use of version control for scripts in a project. It is
>> the
>> >> binary stacks that versions control systems can’t track so in Levure
>> those
>> >> are just used for user interface.
>> >>
>> >> Hope this helps.
>> >>
>> >> Martin
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> On Aug 18, 2022, at 6:38 PM, Skip Kimpel via use-livecode <
>> >> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Greetings!
>> >>>
>> >>> Been a while since I have been on this list.  Working on a new project
>> >> and
>> >>> wondering if the backing up of Livecode files to Github was ever
>> >>> implemented and created.  I know there was talk of it at one time.
>> >>>
>> >>> I apologize if it has been in place for a while and I am just out of
>> the
>> >>> loop.  Actually, I HOPE that is the case!
>> >>>
>> >>> Regards,
>> >>>
>> >>> SKIP
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