Property mapper and a s script database

[Neville Smythe]

I have uploaded version 3.4 (revision 7) of nsPropertyMapper to the Sample Stacks site. You can now insert an image into a text field by dragging an image reference from the ImagePicker onto a character in the field. It looks like another revision soon will be needed in light of the new iconGravity settings in LC 10.

While working on the PropertyMapper I have been frustrated by not being able to open alternative versions of the stack (working version, previous version, golden master, version I left on the Desktop for some reason I have forgotten) to compare or recover bits of scripts, because of the limitation in LC about stack names. So I have put together a script database management stack/standalone in which one can install as many copies of stacks as you like, and search their scripts. You can save favourite code snippets (eg a UTC timestamp handler, or Jacque's recent note about visual effectrate which was news to me), add keywords for later database queries, compare versions, and even search for that script you wrote some time before 2010 where you made a comment somewhere about a memory leak.

It runs best as a standalone so rather than submit it to Sample Stacks the compiled versions together with the source are available at

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6jlr902yn6kktun/AADLjPIl8fb4lGvaYt1ZsOhla?dl=0

Comments, bugs and suggestions most welcome.

OT: All this would have been ready days ago if I hadn’t been diverted by the wordle craze  - it’s all too tempting  to use LC to quickly cobble together versions for other languages since I already have word lists for English, French, Italian, German etc, and looking at frequency tables for the best first test word. Hint: the most frequent letters sequence is *not* ET AION RSH… well-known to codebreakers.

Neville Smythe