Do script-only stacks support "chained" behaviors?

[Geoff Canyon]

That's a nice idea about the warnings.

On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 3:30 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Cool, scriptifier was/is just a tool I wrote because it took about the
> same about of time to write as to tediously scriptify a stack so I thought
> it would be a win in the end. If anyone is keen to make it more robust or
> start from scratch then have at it. FWIW it would probably be a good idea
> to check scriptified scripts for the conditional messages that are only
> sent if an object has them (idle, mouseStillDown etc) and warn about
> scriptifying those. We got caught with idle in an old script in an IDE
> stack once.
>
> Cheers
>
> Monte
>
> > On 21 Jan 2018, at 6:28 pm, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > At a fundamental level (unless I'm misreading it) Scriptifier parses a
> > whole stack and looks for objects with a script and no behavior, and
> turns
> > them into an object with no script and a script-only stack behavior.
> > Navigator will work on whatever controls you tell it to, and will look
> for
> > objects with a script and no behavior, and turn them into an object with
> no
> > script and a script-only stack behavior, but it will also find objects
> with
> > a button behavior (that does not itself have a behavior), and create a
> > script-only stack with that button's script, and set those objects'
> > behavior to the resulting stacks (and the original button, so if there
> are
> > unconverted controls, they'll still work. I'm definitely going to have to
> > add an "and enclosed controls" option in Navigator. There are several
> other
> > differences, as there always will be when two different people look at a
> > problem.
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 11:01 PM, Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I built my own, for several reasons, among them:
> >>
> >> 1. In the context of Navigator, I needed to support creating stack
> >> behaviors for an arbitrary collection of controls, rather than recursing
> >> through a stack.
> >> 2. I figured that Monte and I would approach the task differently, and
> we
> >> did on several fronts.
> >> 3. I thought it would be fun to code. (and it was, I royally borked my
> >> first implementation in the product definition phase)
> >>
> >> I just ran my first test, and it seems to be working.
> >>
> >> I'm going to build some more tests for it, then release it with stern
> >> warnings that anyone using it on a non-backed-up project is foolish,
> and I
> >> am not responsible for the horrible things they do with it. It should be
> >> available sometime tomorrow.
> >>
> >> gc
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 7:16 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode <
> >> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dumb question, Geoff, are you going to embed/call Scriptifier to
> achieve
> >>> that or are you going to do something else?
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 8:25 PM, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode <
> >>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I get that it can be done, I just hesitate to start monkeying with
> >>> people's
> >>>> scripts like that in Navigator (which is going to have a conversion
> >>>> function in the next update). For now I'm thinking that I just skip
> >>>> anything with chained behaviors, unless someone has a better
> suggestion.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 5:15 PM, Trevor DeVore via use-livecode <
> >>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> For now I just set the chained behaviors for any script only stacks
> >>> that
> >>>>> require them when the app starts up. Not ideal, but worth it in order
> >>> to
> >>>>> manage the scripts with source control.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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