Your scripts as a flowchart

[Andreas Bergendal]

Getting a full export is a tricky business, and I’m looking at various solutions.

The easiest workaround is to launch the flowchart in a web browser and print to PDF from there. 
On Windows/Linux the flowchart is shown that way anyway, and on Mac you load it in a web browser by shift-clicking the Create flowchart button. The obvious downside of printing to pdf is that you get page breaks that split up the flowchart.

Another workaround is to paste the Mermaid code into an online editor like https://mermaid.live and then export to PNG from there.

What looks more promising for actually solving it in-stack though, is using the command-line interface (CLI) for Mermaid to generate an svg/png/pdf file:
https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli

I’ll experiment with that and see what I can come up with. :)

> As an aside, I don't know whether to be proud or horrified at the map
> Navigator produces…

Yeah, I know the feeling… :D

/Andreas


> 18 sep. 2023 kl. 03:38 skrev Geoff Canyon via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> 
> Is there a way to export the entire flowchart, instead of just the portion
> currently displayed?
> 
> As an aside, I don't know whether to be proud or horrified at the map
> Navigator produces...
> 
> On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 8:04 PM Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Ah, okay, that explains it. In Navigator, *everything* is a script-only
>> stack behavior. In a few of the substacks there are scripts for a few
>> template objects or where script-only-stack behaviors were inconvenient (I
>> don't remember why, honestly).
>> 
>> That has it working, and the resulting diagram is nice. Navigator does a
>> similar survey (without the visualization, that's a neat trick).
>> 
>> Navigator reports:
>> 
>> 302986 characters in
>> 8092 lines in
>> 112 scripts in
>> 885 objects.
>> 
>> ScriptDependencies reports:
>> 
>> 341 unique handler names - 407 commands, 124 functions, 1 setProps
>> 
>> regards,
>> 
>> Geoff
>> 
>> On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 6:24 PM Andreas Bergendal via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> As long as you include all the script-only stacks in the analysis, they
>>> will be handled.
>>> The tool will not look for behaviors and auto-include them. Every stack
>>> that has relevant code must be included manually in the project pane. If
>>> you have many SoSs, you can quickly add them all by adding the whole folder
>>> they are in.
>>> 
>>> How many handlers does the analysis find?
>>> 
>>> /Andreas
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 16 sep. 2023 kl. 22:43 skrev Geoff Canyon via use-livecode <
>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>>> 
>>>> I didn't change anything before generating, and the flow chart is
>>> literally
>>>> blank -- unless it:
>>>> 
>>>> 1. scrolls invisibly
>>>> 2. keeps returning the project name to the upper left while scrolling
>>>> 3. has *at least* 30 screens' worth of blank space at the top?
>>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 1:35 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
>>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> That happened to me too with a very long script. To keep everything in
>>>>> view
>>>>> there's a lot of white space. Keep scrolling. This happens only if you
>>>>> have
>>>>> set it to use unlimited sizing.
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>>>>> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>>>>> On September 16, 2023 11:15:00 AM Geoff Canyon via use-livecode
>>>>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Does it not handle script-only stack behaviors? I get a blank display
>>> for
>>>>>> Navigator (which has no code other than SoS behaviors).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> gc
>>> 
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