What is your best practice for setting a script in a script?

[Paul Dupuis]

Oh, another great solutions!

On 7/15/2023 8:23 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote:
>
> On 15/07/2023 21:29, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
>> All good suggestions so far, but not what I was after, which was 
>> whether there is any better way to have the script you are setting 
>> the newly created object to, readable, in the script that setup of 
>> the new object. If a behavior script is used or properties or objects 
>> then I can not read (and potentially revise) the script right in the 
>> script that is making the object. I have to open something else if I 
>> want to revise the script. Of course I can have a comment that says 
>> "look here for the script" and it is generally obvious from "set the 
>> script of button "Sample" to <some property and/or object reference>.
>>
> OK, how about this ?
>
>> on mouseUp
>>    -- using special comments to set script of another object
>>    local tmp
>>    put the script of me into tmp
>>    filter tmp with "*--1 *"
>>    replace "--1 " with empty in tmp
>>    set the script of btn "B" to tmp
>>    --1 on mouseup
>>    --1   put "hello world"
>>    --1 end mouseup
>> end mouseUp
>
> of course, you could have multiple of them --1, --2, etc.
>
> and you could have metadata, say the first line of each "special 
> comment" has the object name
>
> --1 -- script for button "abc"
> --1 on mouseup
> ...
> --1 end mouseup
>
>
> Alex.
>
>
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