frontscripts and backscripts

The frontscripts and backscripts folders in your app folder are where you store frontscript and backscript script-only stacks for your application.

• Scripts in frontscripts are loaded using insert script of <stack> into front.
• Scripts in backscripts are loaded using insert script of <stack> into back.

Contents

• Adding frontscripts and backscripts
• The frontscripts and backscripts sections in app.yml

Adding frontscripts and backscripts

To add a frontscript or backscript to your application simply add the script-only stack to the frontscripts or backscripts folder. The next time you load your application in the LiveCode IDE all stacks in the frontscripts folder will be loaded using insert script of <stack> into front and all stacks in the backscripts folder will be loaded using insert script of <stack> into back.

• 📂 app
  • 📂 frontscripts
    • my_frontscript.livecodescript
  • 📂 backscripts
    • my_backscript.livecodescript

If you add a subfolder to the frontscripts or backscripts folder then all stacks in the subfolder will also be loaded as frontscripts or backscripts when you open your application.

The frontscripts and backscripts sections in app.yml

The frontscripts and backscripts sections in your app.yml file specify which stacks will be loaded as frontscripts and backscripts. By default, app.yml is configured to load all stacks in the frontscripts and backscripts folders and their subfolders:

# app.yml

frontscripts:
  - folder: ./frontscripts
backscripts:
  - folder: ./backscripts

If you wish, you can customize the frontscripts and backscripts sections to load stacks from other folders or to override the default encryption setting for some of your stacks.

Examples

TODO: Give app.yml examples of:

• Loading a shared frontscripts folder

• Loading an individual shared frontscript stack

  frontscripts:
    - filename: ../../shared/my_frontscript.livecodescript
    - folder: ./frontscripts
  

• Overriding encryption for a frontscripts folder or subfolder

• Overriding encryption for an individual frontscript stack

  behaviors:
    - filename: ./frontscripts/my_unencrypted_frontscript.livecodescript
      encrypt: false
    - folder: ./frontscripts
  

# app.yml

frontscripts:
  - filename: [relative path to stack file within frontscripts folder]
    encrypt: true|false [optional parameter that can override the `encrypt stacks` setting for this stack]
  - folder: [relative path to a folder containing frontscript stack files]
    encrypt: true|false [optional parameter that can override the `encrypt stacks` setting for all stacks in the folder]
backscripts:
  - filename: [relative path to stack file within backscript folder]
    encrypt: true|false [optional parameter that can override the `encrypt stacks` setting for this stack]
  - folder: [relative path to a folder containing backscript stack files]
    encrypt: true|false [optional parameter that can override the `encrypt stacks` setting for all stacks in the folder]