The paste is how I did it in my little stack. Theres an old post about it here: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=12876&hilit=objects+clipboarddata but I still haven't relocated the little stack thingy. Love the idea of copying a stack directly to a variable.
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Richard Gaskin <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the thoughts on this conundrum. > > Mark S' suggestion of restoring by saving the clipboardData["objects"] by > pasting is a good one and might be worth testing to see if this can be done > with LC Server, but since the clipboard version of a stack is nearly twice > as large as its native format I'm reluctant to spend much time with that > option in a setting already concerned with network latency. > > Similarly, Alain's suggestion of serializing to a text format (I tend to > use arrays for object serialization now that we have arrayEncode(); I'm > lazy so I let the engine do the parsing <g>) would also be a good one in > some contexts but suffers from the same limitation as the binary clipboard > data in terms of size. > > It's hard to beat the compact expression of stack data in the native stack > file format. > > At the moment I'm resigned to allowing file I/O in the app, rationalizing > the use of a cache folder for other benefits beyond the necessity of > sending stack files back to the server. > > For the future, I've submitted a feature request: > > Request: copy <stack> to <variable> > <http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12639> > > > Also relevant for those of you who make client-server apps, an older > request that would be useful in some scenarios by limiting file I/O to one > specific folder, prohibiting all other reads/writes: > > secureFolder > <http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=867> > > > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > [email protected] http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
