Re: Lock screen challenge

2022-11-22 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 11/22/22 3:27 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: One option to use an external editor would be ScriptTracker. You could export the scripts, do your bulk changes, and then import them back. That's worth a thought. Thanks. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.co

Re: Lock screen challenge

2022-11-22 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 11/22/22 3:08 PM, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode wrote: A random thought: if you converted to script-only stack behaviors first, then you would have a bunch of text files you can use whatever tool you like on. This project is a huge HC world. There are a lot of stacks, hundreds of cards, and

Re: Lock screen challenge

2022-11-22 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Yup. That happens, and I thought of it. I'm still trying to figure out how to approach this. On 11/22/22 3:50 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode wrote: Not to be Johnny Rain Cloud... What if handler "A" locks and it calls either hander "B" OR handler "C" to unlock? Ralph DiMola IT Director Eve

RE: Lock screen challenge

2022-11-22 Thread Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
Not to be Johnny Rain Cloud... What if handler "A" locks and it calls either hander "B" OR handler "C" to unlock? Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Beha

Re: Lock screen challenge

2022-11-22 Thread Geoff Canyon via use-livecode
Yep, that makes sense. Looks nice! On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 1:28 PM Brian Milby via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > One option to use an external editor would be ScriptTracker. You could > export the scripts, do your bulk changes, and then import them back. > > Brian Milby

Re: Lock screen challenge

2022-11-22 Thread Geoff Canyon via use-livecode
One small point on this: it doesn't matter since we're dealing with HC files here, but in LC there can be backgrounds that don't appear on any card. So it would be necessary to add: repeat with j = 1 to the number of backgrounds in stack i repeat with k= 1 to the number of controls of back

Re: Lock screen challenge

2022-11-22 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
One option to use an external editor would be ScriptTracker. You could export the scripts, do your bulk changes, and then import them back. Brian Milby br...@milby7.com > On Nov 22, 2022, at 4:10 PM, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode > wrote: > > A random thought: if you converted to script-onl

Re: Lock screen challenge

2022-11-22 Thread Geoff Canyon via use-livecode
My first thought is to export all scripts to a single file, with customized headers for each object (maybe with a user-definable format). Then look for that same format when pasting, to restore/update the scripts. Does that make sense? Or would it be better to have an export function to create indi

Re: Lock screen challenge

2022-11-22 Thread Geoff Canyon via use-livecode
Navigator has support for test-based filtering of controls, and can copy/paste scripts, but it doesn't support copying/pasting to more than one control at a time. That would be an interesting problem to solve. What's your time frame? gc On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 1:25 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livec

Re: Lock screen challenge

2022-11-22 Thread Geoff Canyon via use-livecode
A random thought: if you converted to script-only stack behaviors first, then you would have a bunch of text files you can use whatever tool you like on. gc On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 1:25 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I'm updating a very old set of st

Re: Lock screen challenge

2022-11-22 Thread Jim MacConnell via use-livecode
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