Please add a way to Name my own Controls

[sturgis]

To open the app browser, in the message box I put

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open stack "revApplicationOverview"

Should be easy to code a button that will toggle it open and closed.

To find the name of the stack to open was easy enough too. I opened the app browser, and in the message box executed

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 put the openstacks

and there it was.
The returned list was:

• Message Box
  revTools
  revApplicationOverview
  revMenubar
  revNewScriptEditor 1

[BarrySumpter]

Sorry thats just too complicated.
Can you put that into laymans terms so I can better understand where you're coming from.

As always the LiveCode solution is embarassingly simple.

[BarrySumpter]

Well the other embarassing thing is
I don't know how to open my revBGS.livecode in LiveCode for editiing.

revBGS doesn't appear in the App Browser.
So I probably need a msgbox script to open it.

I just started using "Hide Plugins Patch.rev"
to hide the Data Grid Helper stacks in the App Browser.

I wonder if I've inadvertantly done something with the Hide Plugins Patch.

If I can get some help opening my project I'll add an instructions card to it.

LOL

How embarassing.

[bn]

Hi Barry,

since you prefixed your stack with rev it will not show in the application browser unless you go to preferences-> General and check -> Livecode UI elements appear in lists of stacks

then the application browser shows your stack and you can start editing it from there.

Kind regards

Bernd

[BarrySumpter]

Thanks Bernd.
Much appreciated.

I can get to the script via the AppBrowser.
I can move the existing controls around.

But I can't seem to add a label to enter my instructions.

I think its something to do with the:
Palette this stack

[bn]

Hi Barry,

from the message box issue:

toplevel stack "myPalettedStack"

and it will leave palette mode and be fully editable.

Kind regards

Bernd

[BarrySumpter]

sorry should have mentioned I did the right click on the app browser for my stack and selected top level.
Still no joy.

Will try the msgbox as see what happens.
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Nope.
I get this sometimes on my normal unpalatted stacks.
I usually just restart LiveCode and all is well.

I wonder if I should rename the stack to BGSrev and save as BGSrev in say PluginsBackup.
Then when updating open only the BGSrev, make my updates, and save to plugins folder as revBGS.

[bn]

Hi Barry,

I don't know why you want to prefix your plug-in stack with rev. You get into all kinds of trouble since the rev prefix is for Runrev stacks: IDE etc. They use this to do all sort of behind the back magic.

You can name a plug-in anything you want it will work just as well.

Kind regards

Bernd

[BarrySumpter]

... You get into all kinds of trouble since the rev prefix is for Runrev stacks: IDE etc. They use this to do all sort of behind the back magic. ...

Yeah, getting into all the kinds of trouble now. LOL
I'm sure that was me trying to be smart and testing by trial and error.

I think I've really mucked up my stack now.
Can't get it to act like a normal stack.
Have found that a ctrl-shift right-MouseClick gets me my contect popups (edit script, property inspector, etc.)
But still can't drop a label on it.

Looks like I'll have to start a new stack and copy everything over to it and NOT EVER save with a rev prefix again.

What a pickle.

[mwieder]

Barry- yes, you do have to toplevel your stack if you want to add controls to it. I haven't tried this from the App Browser, but it does work from the message box. Note that you may indeed have problems updating a stack already in your plugins folder, especially if it's already in use as a plugin. I've found that the safest thing sometimes is to move it out of the plugins folder, toplevel it, do the editing, set it back to palette (or do this in the preopenstack handler), and then move it back into the plugins folder. ymmv.

[BarrySumpter]

Have topleveled,
have renamed stack to BGSrev and saved as BGSrev,
have removed BGSrev and revBGS from plugins folder
---- to Plugins Backup folder (at the same level as Plugsinsfolder),
have restarted LiveCode,
have opened BGSrev, topleveled and still won't allow me to drop a label.

Have started new MainStack and have to copy all one object and script at a time.
Lucky its only 4 buttons so far and about 6 tabs of script.


I don't think I need the palette either.

But just found this as well:
http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-l ... 12923.html
How to edit a palette?

Contextual menus not working for me either... but for years I have put
toggles on palette windows during dev... this works great: make it a
check box btn ( if you want to see it) or make it transparent,
borderless, nameless btn in some location you can remember (if you
don't like to see it on the interface... later if you forget you can
find it in the application overview)

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on mouseup
   if the mode of this stack is 4 then
     toplevel this stack
   else
     palette this stack
   end if
end mouseup

or "remotely" from another stack, say stack "Dev Tools" which has a 
button:

"Edit Favorites Window"

on mouseup
   if the mode of stack "Favorites" is 4 then
     toplevel stack "Favorites" ## allows editing
   else
     palette stack "Favorites" ## restore to palette
   end if
end mouseup

[BarrySumpter]

With the Save, How can I send file | Save to the revMenubar?

something like this:

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if the mode of stack "revApplicationOverview" is not 0 then
    send "revRetainStacks" to stack "revApplicationOverview"
    send "revInitAppBrowser" to stack "revApplicationOverview"
  end if

[BarrySumpter]

Ok, lost my momentum for researching this for now.

Have attached my work so far.

[BarrySumpter]

well this is kind of interesting:
altPlugin
http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/default.htm
http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/altP ... lugins.htm

But the altPluginBuilder plugin.rev isn't available.
Drats!

[BarrySumpter]

toplevel this stack

opens the stack for editing

Is there a way to Bring To Top the AppBrowser stack?