Hi Richard and Colin,
Richard Gaskin wrote > > [snip] > Maybe, but the absence of other devs anxious to dive in to help may also > merely suggest that such a translator has limited utility to the > community. > [snip] > But LiveCode stacks are only useful when run with the LiveCode engine. > Well, that is an interesting point of view, because I see LiveCode stacks as a set of controls (Buttons, Scrollbars, menus, images, text fields, vector graphics, etc...) driven by user interactions and controled by a script language. Under that "broad" definition we could fit most (not all) of the current script driven software development and document creation. For this reason, I focus more in the similarities than in the differences among different file formats. I want to see the day when a stack could be exported to SVG, HTML webpages, SWF movies, PDF documents (Jan Schenkel have already created this library), OpenOffice or LibreOffice documents and others. Colin Holgate-2 wrote > > [snip] > You could choose to export a set of things from LiveCode that > you know to be common amongst other tools, and that would > at least give you a starting point for the interface design. > Converting code would be tricky though, and any of LiveCode's > custom features might be impossible to export in a way that > other tools could make sense of. > > So, the main use for exporting XML might be as a way to take > a stack and get it into an older version of LiveCode, or perhaps > as a text file backup of a stack. > Mark Wieder wrote about using XML to convert stacks in a format that could be used in version control systems. This would allow many developers to work in the same stack or development project. Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Converting-a-Stack-to-many-formats-starting-from-XML-tp4650197p4650370.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ 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
