Mark,
I've experimented some today and had 'limited' success. Here's the best
I came up with:
on revCloseStack curStack
try
set the CurrentRect of stack "ScriptEditorRect" to the rect of
stack "revNewScriptEditor 1"
end try
end revCloseStack
on revEditScript
send "setScriptEditorRect" to me in 10
end revEditScript
on setScriptEditorRect
set the rect of stack "revNewScriptEditor 1" to the CurrentRect of
stack "ScriptEditorRect"
end setScriptEditorRect
I had to put the revCloseStack handler in a try/catch since there are no
parameters sent to the message and "this stack" doesn't reflect whether
you're closing the script editor or not. But it does record the
location and size of where you last had it before closing.
The send command, which I forgot on Friday, didn't work unless I sent it
in 10 milliseconds. That's the lowest I could get it down to, and it
only produced a small amount of 'window jumping' which is acceptable.
The real problem I ran into was the difference between relocating the
script editor window and resizing it. Relocating it worked but resizing
it somehow made Livecode intercept my messages and return it to a
default location. And for some weird reason that default location is
now on my second monitor.
The only way around this 'intercept' was to lock messages just before
setting the rect of the script editor and then unlock them right
afterward. This opened the overall the script editor window to the rect
I specified, but it left all the controls inside of it as if the window
had opened in its previous rect which was unacceptable.
So it's still a mess but the upside is I got some good experience
working with front scripts and plugins which you introduced me to. Thanks!
All of this seems like a lot of work to go through just to get
Livecode's script editor, the one area where more work is done than
anywhere else, to behave as it should out of the box. It may seem like
a minor thing but if you open and close this window 10 to 15 times a
minute all day long it, the constant fighting with Livecode for where it
opens can mean the difference between a productive, fluid and pleasant
work day and a day which is instead difficult, frustrating stop-and-go
of constant annoyances diverting your attention away from the job at hand.
I don't think there's any way around this so I'll just leave the bug
report stand and hope somebody in Edinburgh gets to it.
Thanks,
Ray
On 1/31/2014 6:19 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:
Hi Ray,
You're doing it wrong. Have a look at the send command in my script.
It is quite obvious.
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On 2/1/2014 00:16, Ray wrote:
So here's what I'm trying:
Make a stack called "Test Front Script" with the following script in
its one and only card:
on revEditScript
answer the openStacks
end revEditScript
Put the "Test Front Script" stack in the Plugins folder
Launch LC and make a New Mainstack
Choose Development/Plugins/Plugin Settings
Choose the Test Front Script, select RevEditScript in the list and
close Plugin Settings
Click on Development again, drag to Plugins and choose Test Front
Script which opens it
The revEditScript message is now trapped when I open the stack script,
but just as before, the only stacks listed as the openStacks are:
Test
revTools
Untitled 1
revMenuBar
Evidently the "revNewScriptEditor 1" is still not yet in existence and
thus can not be located anywhere. That is, if I leave the script editor
window open and open another script I get "revNewScriptEditor 1" listed
in the openStacks, but by now it's too late. The window already opened
partially off the screen.
Am I doing this right?
Thanks,
Ray
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