Stable component IDs

Feature requests
1

What do you want to achieve?

I’d like to be able to cherry-pick changes from my UI engineer in git. One challenge I face is that simple changes in SquareLine often produce very large differences in the project file. For example, moving a screen slightly in SLS produces ~24k line patchfile, mostly consisting of things like this, which only change the “compnid”:

                           {
                             "nid": -27485376,
-                            "compnid": 264909706,
+                            "compnid": 553014001,^M
                             "strtype": "_style/StyleState",
                             "strval": "PRESSED",
                             "InheritedType": 1
                           },

Do you see alternative options and workaround to achieve it?

I considered writing a python parser/serializer that might be able to address this, but I figured I would ask here. It’s also complicated since after the cherry-pick or merge, SLS needs to export the code again.

Mention some use cases

This could be helpful for anyone using SLS with git and branches.

2

Thanks for the constructive tip Richard. We’ll consider implementing this feature.