Intercepting 'set the script..." in the IDE editor

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Fri May 4 18:03:39 EDT 2012


Thanks!  Are there object and script parameters or will I have to get those another way?

Dar

On May 4, 2012, at 2:27 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote:

> Dar,
> 
> ActionCompile is called when you click the Apply (compile) button in the IDE. I believe it is called before the actual compile. If you don't have the "pass actionCompile" statement it doesn't compile.
> 
> on actionCompile
>   --your code here
>   pass actionCompile
> end actionCompile
> 
> Bill Vlahos
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> On May 2, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Dar Scott wrote:
> 
>> I like the idea of a plugin setting up a front script.  However, don't I need to catch the click on the apply button rather than closefield?  
>> 
>> 
>> Maybe, I'm trying to do the wrong thing.  Maybe I just need a plugin button to make the transformation on the edit field itself, perhaps with comments showing the change.  This should be set up to be undoable.
>> 
>> That might look OK for, say, constant folding, but would look scary for translating some domain language into 'talk.  Even with a comment showing the original line, suddenly getting lines 300 characters long that look like nonsense can be confusing.  
>> 
>> It does put the LiveCode programmer in charge.
>> 
>> 
>> Dar
> 
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