Wasn't the ten lines of 'do' commands a very old demo version thing?... Designed to keep testers from do-ing too much without buying the product? And wasn't it removed long ago?
Questions, questions, questions... ~Roger On Feb 13, 2014 12:11 PM, "Richard Gaskin" <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > Earthednet-wp wrote: > > > Richard, > > My question was probably too elementary, but what I was really asking > > is: > > Do all of the handlers in a single button script count as a single > > script, or is a single handler in the button script counted as a > > script, for purposes of scriptLimits. > > There was no limit to the number of lines in a given frontScript, > backScript, or library in terms of execution. > > But when setting an object's script, the total number of executable lines > had the same limit as for "do": ten executable lines, in any handler, > comments and line wraps excluded. > > > > If only 10 front scripts were allowed, the method wouldn't be very > > useful for library purposes. > > It was only 10 lines of *new* code, either through "do" or setting an > object's script. Both of those are fairly specialized cases, which is why > we've not heard much of an uproar about scriptLimits in the 15+ year they > were in place. > > Any amount of code written in a licensed development environment prior to > building the standalone has always been allowed. > > And as Mark Wieder noted: "Last time I looked in the code, the script > limits were commented out" > > ...so it looks like this is all just ancient history anyway. > > (Thanks for that, Mark) > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World > LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com > Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com > Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
