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Hello everyone:
Just for education purpose, I want to develop an APP which can run a piece of LC script code and output the results, such as in the main window, the user types some LC code and press one button labeled with "Running ", then output the results. Thanks!

Hi longzexd,
The idea is attractive but you have to consider you will lost edit tools (indentation for loop, search tools ...)
Just a thought
Best regards
Jean-Marc

Thanks a lot !

SparkOut wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 14, 2018 5:13 pm

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put field "codeSnippet" into codeSnippet 
-- SANITISE THE CODE SNIPPET
-- check for bad code, whether accidental or deliberate
-- then once you have code that is safe to run,
do tCodeSnippet

yes, it will lost some edit tools functions, however I just want the user to master some basic LC script grammar. Thanks!

jmburnod wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 14, 2018 7:31 pm

Hi longzexd,
The idea is attractive but you have to consider you will lost edit tools (indentation for loop, search tools ...)
Just a thought
Best regards
Jean-Marc

It seems to that some basic automatic indentation would be important for new students getting used to Livecode. And, with the naviety of someone who hasn't actually tried it, it seems that it shouldn't be that hard to implement.

E.g. watch for some basic keywords like on, function, if, repeat, etc., and on the return key being pressed, add an additional amount of indentation to the current indentaion until the keyword "end" is encountered.

It might even be possible to code for automaically adding the "end" line below the "on" line, but, in this case, one would have to use a different way to determine if a line should be indented, perhaps using flags.

It may also be that someone in this group has already written similar code. It might be worth searching around a bit for it.

Erm, isn't what your describing what the code editor already does? Or am I missing something (again)

@ longzexd
Just for my curiosity, why do you want use a standalone instead a simple stack ?