Open 2 Cards in same stack side by side

[Richard Gaskin]

Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote:

> Am I the only one who ever wished you could open card 3 and
> card 10 at the same time? side by side, like a split screen
> in a text/code editor?
> 
> having the PB open to one card "A" and the actual stack open
> to card B works pretty well, but some not so well.

This is coming, but not for some time:
<http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2786>

My understanding is that the team wants that as much as the rest of us, 
as they have some IDE plans in store for it.

But as we know, they have rather a queue ahead of that, so I don't know 
what any official estimates might be but I wouldn't expect that this 
year.

So in the meantime I can think of two alternatives which might help and 
can certainly be done in a couple hours on a Sunday:

1) View-only: the import snapshot command was enhanced many years ago to 
allow rendering of objects directly into the screenshot buffer rather 
than being limited to what's on screen. This includes objects that 
aren't currently open. Try it. Kinda fun. You can make a viewer window 
that has some list of cards, and when a card is selected it gets 
rendered in an image so you can refer to it while you're working on 
another card in the actual stack.


2. Copy out and back: If you need to interact with objects in the second 
card you're viewing rather than just see them, you could copy them out 
to a viewer stack, and copy them back when you're done. Not entirely 
without trickiness, depending on how your stack is structured, but maybe 
worth exploring if that has high value for you.


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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
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