Multi-platform development.

[Roger Eller]

However, to people with absolutely no background in programming with other
languages, it makes perfect sense.  Rather than ruin such a wonderful boost
in learning and productivity, I would rather have a new editor that brings
all of the object scripts together into one editing field, yet makes it
clear to which object the block of code belongs.

~Roger
On Jan 21, 2016 12:44 AM, "Matt Maier" <blueback09 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to put as much of the logic into script only stacks as possible
> cuz I want my application to be open source contribution friendly. Livecode
> actually makes that counterintuitive because it's so tempting to put little
> handlers in each control.
> On Jan 20, 2016 12:45, "Bob Sneidar" <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Jan 20, 2016, at 10:14 , Mark Waddingham <mark at livecode.com<mailto:
> > mark at livecode.com>> wrote:
> >
> > For example, many document-centric apps will have a 'Save' function. On
> > Mac this is typically 'just' in the File menu. However, on Windows it is
> > usual to have it both in the File menu *and* as a button on a document's
> > toolbar. If the code for the 'save' action is not factored out you end up
> > with duplicated code - so it is quite natural to move this code 'down'
> into
> > core logic.
> >
> > Oh right yes I do that too. As soon as I need to access the same code
> from
> > multiple locations, I will often do that, but sometimes I will just send
> a
> > mouseUp (or call a handler) from the object itself. A lot has to do with
> > whether or not the object script has relative references to itself of the
> > card/stack it belongs to. Sometimes moving complex code requires a lot of
> > refactoring, so rather than do that, I just send or dispatch to the
> handler
> > in the object, rather than go through the nonsense of re-debugging
> > everything all over again.
> >
> > Bob S
> >
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