However, to people with absolutely no background in programming with other languages, it makes perfect sense. Rather than ruin such a wonderful boost in learning and productivity, I would rather have a new editor that brings all of the object scripts together into one editing field, yet makes it clear to which object the block of code belongs.
~Roger On Jan 21, 2016 12:44 AM, "Matt Maier" <bluebac...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to put as much of the logic into script only stacks as possible > cuz I want my application to be open source contribution friendly. Livecode > actually makes that counterintuitive because it's so tempting to put little > handlers in each control. > On Jan 20, 2016 12:45, "Bob Sneidar" <bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com> wrote: > > > > > On Jan 20, 2016, at 10:14 , Mark Waddingham <m...@livecode.com<mailto: > > m...@livecode.com>> wrote: > > > > For example, many document-centric apps will have a 'Save' function. On > > Mac this is typically 'just' in the File menu. However, on Windows it is > > usual to have it both in the File menu *and* as a button on a document's > > toolbar. If the code for the 'save' action is not factored out you end up > > with duplicated code - so it is quite natural to move this code 'down' > into > > core logic. > > > > Oh right yes I do that too. As soon as I need to access the same code > from > > multiple locations, I will often do that, but sometimes I will just send > a > > mouseUp (or call a handler) from the object itself. A lot has to do with > > whether or not the object script has relative references to itself of the > > card/stack it belongs to. Sometimes moving complex code requires a lot of > > refactoring, so rather than do that, I just send or dispatch to the > handler > > in the object, rather than go through the nonsense of re-debugging > > everything all over again. > > > > Bob S > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
