Heh, I somehow missed the para where you made this comment already Brahma! Sorry.
On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 6:21 PM Ali Lloyd <ali.ll...@livecode.com> wrote: > On the subject of building UI from script, I generally think it boils down > to whether you already have a good resizeStack handler implemented. If you > do, you've done all the hard work already - you can just create all the > objects with their required properties before the card opens and delete > them when it closes, and your resizeStack does the rest of the placement > work. > > Obviously this is a bit trickier if you have a lot of fields prepopulated > with text, or groups with more complicated structure where it's not so easy > to tease out the scripts into a behavior. > > > On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 6:03 PM Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Trevor, thanks for that intro to the new tools in LC9 > > > I'm already using libraries and behaviors extensively, but still find my > self build LC stack binaries with a full stack script or, quite often, 95% > of the code in the card script (if the UI can all be done on a single card) > > The other day I was thinking 'gee, why not just move this card script out > to a behavior and assign it to the card." been mulling this over for a few > days, the the work flow for making this transition seemed onerous, but LC9 > will make it soooo easy! > > Our new app, SivaSiva, is being done with GIT and this is the first time > working with GIT for something like this… for web and RevIgniter, GIT make > obvious sense, since the whole environment is text files from the ground up. > > But now, with the new app, we have this mix of text only scripts and > binary *.livecode stacks. > > So this leads to two more interesting avenue of adventure/explorations > > 1) we are already hitting GIT conflicts with the main stack of the project > because if one developer needs to add some stack files, or wants to change > a standalone setting for testing a build on a device, the IDE of course > requires a Save… so now this stack must be either stashed (assuming you > don’t need the changes) or committed.. and we hit a conflict later that is > not so easily resolved. > > 2) building UI from script: every now and the notion passes by that > perhaps building UI from script has advantages of the LC WSIWIG model. I > was intrigued in your to see in the background in sublime text, you had a > handler that built some of the UI. perhaps all of it for that dialog box? > So the question then becomes when, where and why do we make a decision to > go the route to build UI by script? I guess the one obvious answer is that > you want to put the UI under git control so that we have, as you put it > "fine-grained control over changes, edits, history" etc. > > I wonder if there are other criteria besides that. Possibly building UI be > script may be better suited to responsive design, since, in the end, if you > want responsive geometry, you will end up writing those scripts anyway. > The only thing missing being the default init props for the control (which > we normally would create in the IDE) so one must as well "create button" > and set the default init buttons in the script. Actually it would be pretty > easy to create the button in WSIWIG and have a small tool to write out the > initial props that you could then turn into a script. > > But this should probably be different thread. I'm sure HQ has solved > moved of these issues, but we may need to wait until LC9 is unveiled before > we get the full picture from the mother ship, until then… I "muddle along" > > Brahmanathaswami > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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