Livecode / Github

Sun Aug 28 23:45:07 EDT 2022

If you want to see what the JSON export looks like for a fairly small
stack, you can view this:
https://github.com/bwmilby/SvgIconTool/blob/main/smartcrumbs/SvgIconTool.livecode.sc/stackFileProperties.json

Unfortunately you will need to download and view it with something that
understands the CR line ending since GitHub doesn't.  That repo has both
ScriptTracker exports and SmartCrumbs exports of the stack.  The former is
designed with two things in mind:  allowing changes in the scripts that are
part of a binary stack to be tracked and allowing the editing of those
scripts in an external editor (I like Atom for the linting, have not tried
the newer option).  The latter looks to be a way to completely decompose a
stack into mostly text files (images being one exception) that can be
tracked (and in theory changes merged together I'm guessing).

Since the JSON file is keyed off of the GUIDs of each object, it really
doesn't lend itself to human inspection.  Assuming line endings are sane
(probably would work for Windows and definitely will work for Linux), Git
should easily be able to track the changes.  Whether someone could easily
discern which object was being touched is another matter (which would be
necessary to merge changes together).

On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 9:31 PM Pi Digital via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> It will be good to see, once available, how using the new SmartCrumbs add
> on will help with this. All objects in JSON form and then use stack scripts
> (and htmlText, AudioClip and VideoClip data) in your GitHub repository.
> This is something I really want to start implementing.
>
> Sean
>
>
> > On 28 Aug 2022, at 20:29, Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > 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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