Thanks to both you and Craig. I couldn't think of any other way to do it
either, but was hoping there was something other than brute force. Magic,
maybe. It took LC's search/replace dialog a long time just to find all the
instances, and actually editing them will be longer. But, it's just a one-off.
Craig, I posted here because I more comfortable with it, and because more
old-timers tend to be on the list.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On November 21, 2022 3:45:16 PM Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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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