Where is stack "revNewScriptEditor"?

[dunbarx]

A current thread about finding a lost cursor made me offer the suggestion to:

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if the optionKey is down then set the screenMouseLoc to  the loc of  this stack

Works fine. But the OP mentioned that the issue was when he was editing scripts, so I thought I could be more helpful, and tested:

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if the optionKey is down then set the screenMouseLoc to  the loc of  stack "revNewScriptEditor"

I use two monitors, one exclusively for the SE, and one for everything else. But the above forced the cursor to the middle of my "regular" monitor, to a loc I cannot make sense of. I noticed that I should have written:

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  if the optionKey is down then set the screenMouseLoc to  the loc of  stack "revNewScriptEditor 1"

which does what I originally intended.

This stack "revNewScriptEditor" indeed exists, is hidden and seems to live in the background. If I make it visible it seems to be a tool of some sort. Anyone know what it is for?

Craig

[richmond62]

This stack

Which stack?

stack "revNewScriptEditor" or

stack "revNewScriptEditor 1"

[dunbarx]

Richmond.

Which stack?

Whichever stack.

It turns out that in a new session, only the stack "revNewScriptEditor" is loaded, and it seems to be some sort of template builder for new instances of an SE as they are called. I just never knew that. But the "1" appended to the working, "real" SE should have tipped me off that this was not just a new version of the SE, but rather the first instance of what might be many such.

Craig

[richmond62]

Anyone know what it is for?

I would suppose it is a template, and a clone of it is made for each script editor an end-user 'calls' to fill with code.

[bn]

Craig,

If an actual editor is created within "revNewScriptEditor" these functions are helpful.

The topMostEditor:

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put revTopMostScriptEditor()

All currently open Editors

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put revListScriptEditors()

Kind regards
Bernd

[dunbarx]

Bernd.

Do you have a secret list of undocumented native LC words? My favorite is "the messageMessages", but I know there are lots more.

Craig

[bn]

Do you have a secret list of undocumented native LC words? My favorite is "the messageMessages", but I know there are lots more.

Craig,

No but I made a stack that searches the .livecodescript files of the current installation of LC which comprises most of the the code for the IDE.
(the few non-scriptified stacks are not searched)

findTextInIDE_3 3.livecode.zip

(6.55 KiB) Downloaded 132 times

or to find handlers (same search as above but restricted to handlers:

findHandlersInIDE_3.livecode.zip

(5.82 KiB) Downloaded 135 times

Have a nice weekend...


Kind regards
Bernd

[dunbarx]

Bernd,

Fun stuff. Thank you.

That home stack is a doozy.

Glad to hear someone thinks the weekend starts today.

Craig