I am slightly anxious about getting the new list address right...apologies
if this ends up somewhere it shouldn't.
I am using MC 2.2 on Mac and the same(ish?) on Windows.
I recently wrote to Kevin Miller of Cross Worlds Computing to congratulate
him on the paper on stack files available on their site. I also slipped in a
question re standalones and saving modifications to stacks/files. Part of
his answer was as follows:
<<If you need to save data, get round this by creating the standalone with
just the splash screen, and having that stack load the next stack which is
stored in another file. You can use relative paths in the stackFiles
property - the starting directory will be the one the standalone started
from.>>
Very helpful advice, but after playing with the idea I became confused.
Rather than pester the man again, I thought I would try the list.
I created a standalone that did nothing but open a stack (a stack that was
not a stack within the standalone). It did, and didn't seem to be doing this
with the aid of MC itself. So was the stack sort of working on its own? Or
was it using the standalone as a player (a la HC player)?
It seemed the stack was using the standalone as a player, but then I tried
double clicking on the stack and got a similar result (ie no MC and no
standalone open at the time). I tried to see if everything worked under both
conditions (although uneasily aware that they may not in fact be two
conditions). *Almost* everything worked, except a script that allows a user
to create a new a 'set' generated by combining items from several other
'sets'. They are invited to name the new set (field) which is created
invisibly and the name of which appears in a list of available sets. If they
later want to refer to and use the new set, they click on the name in the
list and ....well you know the rest. It works fine in development. Aha!
thought I, maybe it needs the ask/answer resources. I imported them into the
stack, an nothing happened. I imported them into the stack that became the
standalone, then generated a new standalone from it. No joy.
I can't even say for sure how many questions this is. Answers to any that
can be discerned would be welcome.
Best wishes,
Dvaid Glasgow
