Round Trip: script-only stacks

[richmond62]

Is it possible to:

1. Save a binary stack as a script-only stack?

2. Save a script-only stack as a binary stack?

If, in case #1, a binary stack contains images and other objects, do they get lost on conversion to a script-only stack?

[Emily-Elizabeth]

Yes, all controls and other imported binary data would be lost. The revMenubar shows how to create a stack with controls and images from a script only stack.

Going from a script only stack to a binary stack would just require you to copy and paste the code into the stack/card script (or where ever)

[richmond62]

Going from a script only stack to a binary stack would just require you to copy and paste the code into the stack/card script (or where ever)

emphasis is mine.

Frankly having to copy-paste each script into each object sounds like a 'right bother'.

[ClipArtGuy]

Going from a script only stack to a binary stack would just require you to copy and paste the code into the stack/card script (or where ever)

emphasis is mine.

Frankly having to copy-paste each script into each object sounds like a 'right bother'.

You can create a script only stack that builds an entire GUI stack with objects etc from a single paste. For example, the demo for the SoudiumXT widget library is a single .livecodescript file that can be pasted into a stack script. Saving and re-opening (or firing a preopenstack from the message box) builds the entire stack from a single paste.

https://github.com/SethMorrowSoftware/S ... codescript

of course for the functionality to actually work, you will need to have SodiumXT installed.

EDIT: All of these demos are each built from a single lievcodescript file.

[FourthWorld]

A script-only stack contains only the script of the stack.

[ClipArtGuy]

That is a fair distinction. My point was that it is possible to build a GUI app from a single script only stack, including all objects, etc without having to manually apply scripts to each object.

[Emily-Elizabeth]

You can always include images as base64 encoded data in the stack only script. It'll make your stack balloon in size, but no dependencies is nice too