[off]sublimeText update

[Brian Milby]

My stack is a different take on the problem.  It allows the benefit of tracking the scripts in a VCS while retaining the convenience of a binary stack file.  It also allows easy editing of scripts outside of the IDE without moving to SOS.  I’m still not convinced that SOS use makes sense all of the time (why put a single level of indirect reference in every object if the script isn’t shared for example).  Even though I name them and format them like a valid SOS, I do not convert them to actual behaviors.

One area where I prefer binary stacks is plugins.  It seems cleaner to keep the code self contained inside the IDE.  I actually consolidate Navigator to a single binary file on my systems and do not notice anything different in operation.

Monte had another project that did export an entire stack into a collection of text files compatible with VCS.  His solution allowed multiple developers to work on a stack using the VCS processes to merge work.  That is much more ambitious than my goal.  My solution would only facilitate distributed work on the scripts of a stack with someone being the gatekeeper of the binary stack file.

Exporting properties of each object would not be that difficult to add, but doing so in a way compatible with VCS would take a bit of thought.  Monte would encode binary stuff into an ASCII friendly format.  [I do include a few items as comments at the top of each script (behavior, long name/ID).]  Format could be XML, JSON, YAML, some new TLA format to appear this year...

Thanks,
Brian
On Mar 13, 2019, 10:59 AM -0400, Mike Kerner via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
> Navigator also has an exporter, and Monte wrote "Scriptifier", which is
> included in the LC bundle, for exporting scripts to SOS's. Once they're in
> SOS's, there's no reason to put them back in the stack, since you can edit
> them using the LC SE or in an external editor. I thought about writing
> something to export the properties of objects in a stack into text files,
> and then at startup using that information to build the stack, but that's
> as far as it's gotten is thinking about it.
>
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 10:28 AM Brian Milby via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a tool that exports the scripts of a stack and can facilitate
> > editing in any external editor. I want to hook it up in Atom like ST, but
> > have not figured out how to rewrite the module in JS. ScriptTracker works
> > by watching a directory for changes to the files. The ST plugin works by
> > sending messages to a server process running in the IDE.
> >
> > forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=77&t=31079
> > github.com/bwmilby/lc-misc/tree/master/ScriptTracker
> > github.com/bwmilby/lc-misc/blob/master/ScriptTracker/ScriptTracker.md
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brian
> > On Mar 13, 2019, 10:18 AM -0400, Mike Kerner via use-livecode <
> > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
> > > The new sublimeText update dropped this morning, and it's pretty sweet.
> > > It now has things like git status integration, which is very cool.
> > > It would be really cool if we could get better integration between
> > external
> > > text editors and ST. The ST kluge works great for updating scripts live
> > in
> > > LC, except when it doesn't, and I don't think we have a way to do it with
> > > Atom, yet.
> > > It would also be cool if we had a better way to have stack files be
> > > represented as text files instead of binary files for easier version
> > > control and editing.
> > > Anyway,
> > > https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-point-2
> > >
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