Re: Converting a stack to a text file..

2016-05-04 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 5/4/2016 4:07 PM, stephen barncard wrote: > you know you can store an entire stack as a custom property INSIDE another > stack, right? Yup. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: Converting a stack to a text file..

2016-05-04 Thread stephen barncard
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Paul Dupuis wrote: > Thank you Mark. It turns out that about 15 minutes ago we found another > approach to what we need to do that doesn't need us to covert a stack to > text and back again. Still, it has me thinking about possible future

Re: Converting a stack to a text file..

2016-05-04 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 5/4/2016 2:46 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > I have created DIFfersifier a long time ago. A few years ago, I added > a way to export stacks to XML. It isn't difficult to do that, since > you just list all the properties as XML. If I remember correctly, a > few properties can be read but not set,

Re: Converting a stack to a text file..

2016-05-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
I have created DIFfersifier a long time ago. A few years ago, I added a way to export stacks to XML. It isn't difficult to do that, since you just list all the properties as XML. If I remember correctly, a few properties can be read but not set, or perhaps there was another problem. I never

Converting a stack to a text file..

2016-05-04 Thread Paul Dupuis
Some time back on this email list there were discussions about tool(s) to write a stack (mainstack, substacks, controls, images, and all their standard and custom properties) out into a text file that could then be run through another tool to recreate the stack exactly. I think I recall that the