Stylistic question.

[Brian Milby]

One reason would be if you were trying to use behaviors so you could manage your code with a repository like Git.  This would greatly reduce the number of behavior scripts that you would create.  One app that work on has the code in the stack’s behavior script.

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> On Jun 19, 2022, at 4:33 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I've noticed that in a lot of the example code I've seen recently, there's a bit of a common pattern.
> 
> In the card script, there will be code like
> 
> on mouseUp
>   switch the short name of the target
>     case "first"
>         doCommandFirst
>         break
>     case "another"
>         doCommandAnother
>         break
>     case "lastnotleast"
>         doCommandlastnotleast
>         break
>   end switch
> end mouseUp
> 
> I've seen this in examples from Livecloud, Appli, the WebApp example from Steven/Michael, and a few other places.
> 
> I would generally have put this code in each button (or other control) directly, and I'm wondering whether there are advantages or preferences for one of those versus the other.
> 
> Thanks for any opinions,
> 
> Alex.
> 
> 
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