Where do you put your scripts?

[Rob Cozens]

>Concerning controls and groups with scripts...  Should reusable 
>controls and groups go in the Revolution object library?  Should 
>those associated with a library stack be put on a card in that stack 
>for easy copying?

It certainly can be done, Dar.  The question is whether it makes 
sense in your runtime environment.

For example, I'm in the process of converting those handlers I still 
intend to use from my HyperTalk library to a Transcript library 
stack.  This includes general-purpose handlers that can be used by 
any of my other stacks/applications for database access, date & time 
functions, input editing & formatting, list & table handling, etc. 
Included is a simple printReport function that lays out a header and 
data in a stack the size of a printed page.  That layout stack can be 
a substack within the library stack and referenced as such by 
printReport.  Likewise for the basic empty database stack used as a 
template to create a new database.

Ideally, one should only have to maintain one instance of any control 
or handler, if that instance is placed in the right spot in the 
message hierarchy.
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Rob Cozens
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