Lock screen challenge

[Geoff Canyon]

My first thought is to export all scripts to a single file, with customized
headers for each object (maybe with a user-definable format). Then look for
that same format when pasting, to restore/update the scripts. Does that
make sense? Or would it be better to have an export function to create
individual files, one ofr each control, with the script in the file? That's
probably more robust, but not everyone knows how to make bulk changes to a
bunch of text files.

On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 1:11 PM Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Navigator has support for test-based filtering of controls, and can
> copy/paste scripts, but it doesn't support copying/pasting to more than one
> control at a time. That would be an interesting problem to solve. What's
> your time frame?
>
> gc
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 1:25 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm updating a very old set of stacks that use old HC syntax for "lock
>> screen". A search with
>> LC's Find utility says there are 723 instances that may need to be
>> changed. Right now they look
>> like this:
>>
>> lock screen
>> -- do any number of things
>> unlock screen with <effect>
>>
>> These all need to be changed to:
>>
>> lock screen for visual effect
>> -- do any number of things
>> unlock screen with visual effect <effect>
>>
>> The challenge is that not all "lock screen" commands use a visual effect,
>> some are simple
>> lock/unlock pairs. I need to automate this. The visual effects are not
>> all the same. Some
>> handlers have multiple instances of locking the screen with or without a
>> visual effect.
>>
>> I'd use a regex if I could, but back references aren't supported (or are
>> they now?) I really
>> don't want to do this manually.
>>
>> --
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>>
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