use-livecode Digest, Vol 230, Issue 17
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Hallo Jacqueline,
Well I wouldn’t expect you asking such a question..!
Scanning all the concerned script, get nScript and set nScript
…
put replacetexte (nScript, „screen“, „screen with visual effect“) into nScript
…
or for safer result (to turn around eventual individual „screen" chunk) of varying blank width) something like this should also works:
….
put 0 into n0
Repeat
put wordoffset(„screen", nScript, n0) into n00
If n00 is 0 then exit repeat
Add n00 to n0
If „lock“ is char -4 to -1 of word n0-1 of nScript then put „ visual effect" after word n0 of nScript
End repeat
….
Safer seems not to be possible!
Jean-Jacques Wagner
(Involved since 20 years in only one for ever lasting patent process)
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> 1. Lock screen challenge (J. Landman Gay)
> 2. Re: Lock screen challenge (Craig Newman)
> 3. Re: Lock screen challenge (Paul Dupuis)
> 4. Re: Lock screen challenge (J. Landman Gay)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:24:15 -0600
> From: "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
> To: LiveCode Mailing List <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Lock screen challenge
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> 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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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 16:30:57 -0500
> From: Craig Newman <craig at starfirelighting.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Re: Lock screen challenge
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> Jacque.
>
> Why aren?t you on the forum?
>
> Cant you just loop through each line in your handlers, and find the ones that contain ?lock screen?, both with and without the visual effect thing. Search downstream until you find the ?unlock? line, That gives you the start and finish lines for each handler. Then you can just replace the start and finish lines with the new ones.
>
> Am I missing this?
>
> Craig
>
>> On Nov 21, 2022, at 4:24 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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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 16:43:08 -0500
> From: Paul Dupuis <paul at researchware.com>
> To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: Lock screen challenge
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> I was also going to suggest just brute forcing it. Something like: (code
> not complete or syntax checked)
>
> repeat with i=1 to the number of stacks
> ? repeat with j = 1 to the number of cards in stack i
> ??? repeat with k= 1 to the number of controls of card j of stack i
> ????? put the script of control k of card j of stack i into tScript
> ????? -- look through the lines of tScript for "lock screen", note the
> line number A, then search from there onward for "unlock screen" and
> note the line number B
> ????? -- if line B begins with (after trimming spaces) "unlock screen
> with" then
> ???????? -- replace line B with "unlock screen with visual effect"
> ??????? -- and replace line A with "lock screen for visual effect"
> ??? end repeat
> ? end repeat
> end repeat
>
>
> On 11/21/2022 4:30 PM, Craig Newman via use-livecode wrote:
>> Jacque.
>>
>> Why aren?t you on the forum?
>>
>> Cant you just loop through each line in your handlers, and find the ones that contain ?lock screen?, both with and without the visual effect thing. Search downstream until you find the ?unlock? line, That gives you the start and finish lines for each handler. Then you can just replace the start and finish lines with the new ones.
>>
>> Am I missing this?
>>
>> Craig
>>
>>> On Nov 21, 2022, at 4:24 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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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 21:47:57 -0600
> From: "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Re: Lock screen challenge
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> Thanks to both you and Craig. I couldn't think of any other way to do it
> either, but was hoping there was something other than brute force. Magic,
> maybe. It took LC's search/replace dialog a long time just to find all the
> instances, and actually editing them will be longer. But, it's just a one-off.
>
> Craig, I posted here because I more comfortable with it, and because more
> old-timers tend to be on the list.
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> --
> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
> On November 21, 2022 3:45:16 PM Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> I was also going to suggest just brute forcing it. Something like: (code
>> not complete or syntax checked)
>>
>> repeat with i=1 to the number of stacks
>> repeat with j = 1 to the number of cards in stack i
>> repeat with k= 1 to the number of controls of card j of stack i
>> put the script of control k of card j of stack i into tScript
>> -- look through the lines of tScript for "lock screen", note the
>> line number A, then search from there onward for "unlock screen" and
>> note the line number B
>> -- if line B begins with (after trimming spaces) "unlock screen
>> with" then
>> -- replace line B with "unlock screen with visual effect"
>> -- and replace line A with "lock screen for visual effect"
>> end repeat
>> end repeat
>> end repeat
>>
>>
>> On 11/21/2022 4:30 PM, Craig Newman via use-livecode wrote:
>>> Jacque.
>>>
>>> Why aren?t you on the forum?
>>>
>>> Cant you just loop through each line in your handlers, and find the ones
>>> that contain ?lock screen?, both with and without the visual effect thing.
>>> Search downstream until you find the ?unlock? line, That gives you the
>>> start and finish lines for each handler. Then you can just replace the
>>> start and finish lines with the new ones.
>>>
>>> Am I missing this?
>>>
>>> Craig
>>>
>>>> On Nov 21, 2022, at 4:24 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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