Watcher Window Behavior

 

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Tired of losing all your settings in the watcher window when you restart Director? Drag this behavior onto a text field, enter the values you"d like to watch in the property description dialog, and it"ll act like a watcher window (but the settings persist across sessions).

--WTCHR --BEHAV -- For support for the behavior, mail:  papakane@papakane.com -- p.s. if anyone knows how to kill the flicker, please let me know. on getBehaviorDescription     -- init description string   txt=""     -- build description string     txt=txt & "Drag this behavior onto a text field and it'll act like the watcher window"     txt=txt & return & return     txt=txt & "Please let me know if you have any problems or suggestions. "     txt=txt & return & return   txt=txt & "papakane@papakane.com"     -- return description string   return txt   end -- property State -- Text field sprite property Spr, Mbr -- vars to watch property Vars -- list of globals we'll need to declare property Globals -- timing stuff property Fps, RefreshTime -- wrap property Visible, Wrap -- todo -- make watcher handle example: "the actorList" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- GetProps ----------------------------------------------------------------------- on GetPropertyDescriptionList me   set props = [:]   props[#Visible]=[#comment:"Watcher is visible", #format:#boolean, #default:True]   props[#Vars]=[#comment:"Variables to watch.  Example: gColor, gFlavor, gMode", #format:#string, #default:""]   props[#fps]=[#comment:"Framerate for watcher window refresh", #format:#float, #range:[#min:0, #max:5], #default:1]   props[#wrap]=[#comment:"Word wrap field text", #format:#boolean, #default:False]     return Props   end ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- BeginSprite ----------------------------------------------------------------------- on BeginSprite me   -- Sprite settings   Spr=sprite(me.spriteNum)   Spr.moveableSprite=True   -- visibility   if Visible then     Spr.visible=True   else     Spr.visible=False   end if   -- Bail if there are no variables to watch   if Vars="" then exit --•   -- Startup stuff   me.Init()   -- Create dynamic script member   me.CreateField()   -- Buildscript   me.BuildScript()   -- Activate stepframe   (the actorList).add(me) end ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Init ----------------------------------------------------------------------- on Init me   -- timing stuff   RefreshTime=the milliseconds   -- member settings   Mbr=Spr.member   Mbr.name="Watcher"   Mbr.border=1   Mbr.alignment="left"   Mbr.boxType=#fixed      Mbr.margin=3   Mbr.font="verdana"   Mbr.fontsize=9   Mbr.text=""      -- set wrap mode   if Wrap then     Mbr.wordWrap=True   else     Mbr.wordWrap=False   end if      -- Convert vars string list to its value   oldDelimiter=the itemDelimiter   the itemDelimiter=","   temp=[]   totalGlobals=the number of items in Vars   repeat with i=1 to totalGlobals     thisGlobal=item i of Vars     thisGlobal=me.trimSpaces(thisGlobal)     temp.add(thisGlobal)   end repeat   Vars=temp    end ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- CreateField ----------------------------------------------------------------------- on CreateField me      mbrType=#script   mbrName="temp"   cst=1      -- Bail if specified cast member already exists   if (the number of member mbrName of castLib cst) > 0 then exit      -- otherwise create member   mbr=new(mbrType, castLib 1)   mbr.name=mbrName    end ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- BuildScript ----------------------------------------------------------------------- on BuildScript me      txt=""      -- declare globals   globals=[]   repeat with var in Vars     if var contains "." then       oldDelimiter=the itemDelimiter       the itemDelimiter="."       var=item 1 of var       the itemDelimiter=oldDelimiter     end if          -- hack     if findPos(globals, var) <= 0 then       globals.add(var)       txt=txt & "global " & var & return     end if        end repeat      member("Watcher").text=""   -- start script   txt=txt & "on temp" & return   txt=txt & me.ParseQuotes("-- Here is a comment line") & return      -- script guts   repeat with i=1 to Vars.count          thisName=string(getAt(Vars, i))     thisVal=Vars[i]     -- " & quote & "          -- txt=txt & me.parseQuotes("put '" & thisName & " = ' & " & thisVal & return)       txt=txt & me.parseQuotes("member('Watcher').text=member('Watcher').text &  '" & thisName & " = ' & " & thisVal )       txt=txt & " & return" & return        end repeat      -- end script   txt=txt & "end temp" & return      -- dump to text field   member("temp").scriptText=txt    end ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- MouseDown ----------------------------------------------------------------------- on MouseDown me      -- Pull debug sprite to top   Spr.locZ=1000    end ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- StepFrame ----------------------------------------------------------------------- on StepFrame me      if the milliseconds < RefreshTime then exit   RefreshTime=the milliseconds + (1000.0/Fps)      member("Watcher").text=""   temp    end ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ExitFrame ----------------------------------------------------------------------- on ExitFrame me   go to the frame end ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- StopMovie ----------------------------------------------------------------------- on StopMovie me   the actorList=[] end on ParseQuotes me, var      oldchar= "'"   newchar=quote      temp=""      if oldchar.char.count>0 then     oldchar=oldchar.char[1]     repeat with i=1 to var.char.count       if var.char[i]=oldchar then         temp=temp&newchar       else         temp=temp&var.char[i]       end if     end repeat   end if      return temp end on trimSpaces me, inString   set outString = inString   repeat while char 1 of outString = SPACE     delete char 1 of outString   end repeat   repeat while the last char of outString = SPACE     delete the last char of outString   end repeat   return outString end