Lock screen challenge

[Brian Milby]

One option to use an external editor would be ScriptTracker.  You could export the scripts, do your bulk changes, and then import them back.

Brian Milby
brian at milby7.com

> On Nov 22, 2022, at 4:10 PM, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> A random thought: if you converted to script-only stack behaviors first,
> then you would have a bunch of text files you can use whatever tool you
> like on.
> 
> 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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