Dear LiveCode Experts,

A reliable UNDO mechanism is an essential part of most desktop apps. 
Programming UNDO functionality, however, is not a trivial task, and it usually 
involves quite a bit of meta-programming: turning function calls into stackable 
objects, assembling the undo/redo stacks, keeping track of the undo/redo 
position in the stack, and updating the Undo/Redo menus.

To help programmers overcome all this complexity, most frameworks have some 
sort of 'UndoManager' class or library, that makes it easier on the developer 
to implement this functionality in their apps.

I have not been able to find any documentation on how to do this with LiveCode, 
and I'm getting quite confused and bogged down trying to think of how to go 
about implementing something from scratch. I have seen how so many programmers 
in this list have been developing *all* kinds of applications with LiveCode, 
seemingly for many years, and therefore I assume that there *must* be a way to 
implement an undo mechanism in LiveCode, which I'm missing...

How do you do it? How do you implement UNDO in your applications? Is there a 
generic mechanism or technique that you use, or do you re-invent the wheel with 
every project?

Any guidance will be enormously appreciated.

--
Igor Couto
Sydney, Australia


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