I was also going to suggest just brute forcing it. Something like: (code
not complete or syntax checked)
repeat with i=1 to the number of stacks
repeat with j = 1 to the number of cards in stack i
repeat with k= 1 to the number of controls of card j of stack i
put the script of control k of card j of stack i into tScript
-- look through the lines of tScript for "lock screen", note the
line number A, then search from there onward for "unlock screen" and
note the line number B
-- if line B begins with (after trimming spaces) "unlock screen
with" then
-- replace line B with "unlock screen with visual effect"
-- and replace line A with "lock screen for visual effect"
end repeat
end repeat
end repeat
On 11/21/2022 4:30 PM, Craig Newman via use-livecode wrote:
Jacque.
Why aren’t you on the forum?
Cant you just loop through each line in your handlers, and find the ones that
contain “lock screen”, both with and without the visual effect thing. Search
downstream until you find the “unlock” line, That gives you the start and
finish lines for each handler. Then you can just replace the start and finish
lines with the new ones.
Am I missing this?
Craig
On Nov 21, 2022, at 4:24 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
I'm updating a very old set of stacks that use old HC syntax for "lock screen".
A search with LC's Find utility says there are 723 instances that may need to be changed.
Right now they look like this:
lock screen
-- do any number of things
unlock screen with <effect>
These all need to be changed to:
lock screen for visual effect
-- do any number of things
unlock screen with visual effect <effect>
The challenge is that not all "lock screen" commands use a visual effect, some
are simple lock/unlock pairs. I need to automate this. The visual effects are not all the
same. Some handlers have multiple instances of locking the screen with or without a
visual effect.
I'd use a regex if I could, but back references aren't supported (or are they
now?) I really don't want to do this manually.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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