Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I’ve been programming for more than 40 years, and I will certainly not give you a list of the programming languages that I have used. I have used all sorts of mechanisms to help me program quickly and efficiently. My latest system is to write my scripts using comments “Here, I search for the files I need”, or “Here build the file list for future examination”. Then, the next day, I fill in the script sections. It is almost the same as doing a flow diagram before starting to code - and has the same effect - Try and think of every thing before writing one line of script. With only 25 years of Hypercard and LiveCode coding behind me, I still run foul of some complex Livecode. One day, I will sit down and study “Regex” examples which at this moment go right over the top of my head.
Recently, I wanted to pick out scripts from my stacks, and display them, but I didn’t know how to get hold of Stack scripts such as “openStack”, so I prepared a post to you guys asking for help. But, before sending my post, I went “googling”, and after an hour, I came across Script Reporter by Stewart Lynch and Sarah Reichelt. Having perused the stack for some time, I realised that the only thing I really needed to understand was : “repeat with k = 1 to the number of controls on card j of stack tStack The rest was far too painful to follow, in spite of my experience. But I had my answer, and prompty scrubbed my call for help. As for “Regex”, I will just have to invest some time in finding out all about its POWER. After all, it can’t be that difficult ….. There is still so much I don’t “grab” in LiveCode, …. but To second Richmonds Rant “Really Annoying Posts”, I will do my utmost to stop asking “lazy” questions ……. -Francis _______________________________________________ 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
