Hacking LiveCode

[Mike Kerner]

How's this: the expected behavior is not documented (as far as I can find),
so I don't know what the expected behavior is. I have tested modifying a
widget, rebuilding it, and re-adding it to LC. That does not seem to cause
existing widgets to update. Is that a bug in my code, and am I doing
something wrong that is leading me down this path? 100% absolutely,
positively, maybe, and then I'm just chasing a phantom...again...
I also don't think there is a documented way to see what version each
widget is in a particular...widget, but I think we might be able to. We can
certainly tell which version of a widget is installed in LC (bug report
23952, whose code is going to go into the hack repo, soon).

If I am write, and it is not a bug in my code, then it absolutely is a
disadvantage to using widgets...until this hack is complete.

On Sun, Sep 25, 2022 at 12:59 PM Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> On 9/25/2022 12:41 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote:
> > chasing all the things that aren't documented, but you need to know about
> > LCB took me back into hacking liveCode.
> > it's just getting started. if you have tools or pointers, the
> > repo/wiki/issues/discussion are at https://github.com/macMikey/LC-HACK
> > Project 1: extracting all properties of a widget (because "export" does
> not
> > export the "base" LC object properties) and applying those properties to
> an
> > updated version of the widget (because LC is releasing updates to the
> > megabundle widgets almost weekly)
> > Project 2: documenting the LC IDE API's?
> >
>
> A clarification please: Are you saying that if I have version 1.1.2 of
> PolyGrid (as an example) installed and I have made a stack using 1 or
> more Polygrids and I now download and install version 1.3.1 (or some
> newer version) of PolyGrid, that when I open my stack the PolyGrids in
> that stack do not update from 1.1.2 to 1.3.1?
>
> If so, this is a terrible disadvantage of any use of widgets. I feel I
> must be misunderstanding why exporting properties to re-apply them is
> needed for updates.
>
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