Stacksmith @stacksmith@mastodon.cloud

Added rudimentary icon support to Stacksmith. Currently that's just an internal list of icon names, IDs and image paths in stacks, and a pushbutton will look up its image based on that info and display it, + "icon" property.

Reimplementation of Stacksmith progressing well. Just started adding code to draw selection handles on parts. There's still a lot missing (a lot of commands, can't refer to most objects from script yet, backgrounds don't exist yet, can't move between cards yet etc.) but progress!

Here's a screenshot of Forge running on Windows:

In a little detour from our regular programming, I just made Forge (a command line tool to run HyperTalk scripts that contains the core of Stacksmith) run on Windows.

That doesn't mean there will be a Stacksmith for Windows, but it is a fun test of how portable that part of Stacksmith is.

Just added another way to add objects to a project (using the Stack Canvas). This for the first time includes a non-script way to create menus!

Did some icons yesterday for the script editor's handler suggestions:

So https://stacksmith.org has now been sort of restored, and a hopefully not quite as broken build can be found on the Github releases page.

Apologies for the state Stacksmith is currently in. The web site died as the result of a server issue, and I haven't had time to work on it recently, so I'm not sure if you can build it with the current Xcode.

Forge can now be used in a "web site mode" not unlike PHP: Scripts can be enclosed in <? and ?> and in between web page content can be left: https://mastodon.cloud/media/xhbJDasjaVKURRLDQ0Y

(Now keep in mind, lacking built-in file access in that tool or ability to launch other shell scripts, it's at best useful for simple text processing)

I just updated the Forge command line tool so it will work as a Unix scripting language (in that it will ignore the shebang). https://github.com/uliwitness/Forge

Wrote some blog posts on things that happen in Stacksmith. First one can be found here: http://orangejuiceliberationfront.com/how-stacksmith-handles-references/ more on the next few weekends.