Always take advantage of a good excuse to rewrite your code. The first pancake is never the best one!
On Jan 22, 2012, at 1:52 PM, stephen barncard wrote: > Still, was it smart enough to figure out 'binary' features of Livecode that > give speed and performance such as "repeat for each", etc. and > multi-dimensional Arrays and the UI features such as the datagrid ? > > The 'translation' could end up being a convoluted mess, hard to > debug/understand. And there is so much more to Livecode now than what was > available in Metacard. > > I think most here would agree for anything but the most basic stacks that > it's still better to do a translation by hand. > > It could always be done, but is it worth the time? > > On 22 January 2012 13:41, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com >> wrote: > >> Hi Bob, >> >> There used to be a SuperCard-to-MetaCard converter. >> >> -- >> >> Economy-x-Talk >> Consultancy and Software Engineering >> http://economy-x-talk.com >> >> Download Color Converter at http://www.color-converter.com >> >> Op 22-jan-2012, om 22:20 heeft Bob Earp het volgende geschreven: >> >> >> Far be it for me to question your wisdom here Jacque, but are you sure >>> this is true for Rev (not LC) ? >>> >>> I went from HC to SC to ToolBook and then Rev, and at the time of looking >>> at Rev, I can remember one of the enticements for moving was the ability to >>> import HC & SC into Rev. I knew a bunch of guys at Allegiant back then, >>> and thought that the SC format was not that different from HC, and very >>> similar to MetaCard. >>> >>> I also seem to remember somebody writing a translator from TB to Rev, >>> which basically dumped a text file description of every object with their >>> scripts, and then built a stack from that in Rev. The only problem was that >>> Rev did things so much better in some areas, most of the time it was more >>> beneficial to rebuild the TB project into a new Rev stack, and only use >>> the valuable stuff like media. >>> >>> Then again, maybe I'm just getting old and my memory is playing tricks ;-) >>> >>> best, Bob... >>> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> >> > > > > -- > > > > Stephen Barncard > San Francisco Ca. USA > > more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
