> On 10/5/00 9:40 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Can a standalone be edited? What is the normal process in
> > maintaining/updating a standalone application?
>
> You can't edit a standalone, because a running executable is locked by the
> OS on many platforms that MetaCard supports. If you need to save changes,
> place those substacks that need to save in separate files and distribute
> that along with your application. Typically, you put all these stacks in
a
> folder call "data" or something similar, and set the stackFiles property
on
> the mainStack you use to actually build into the standalone, so that you
can
> refer to those separated stacks by name as per normal.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kevin
>
> > Larry Huisingh
>
> Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.xworlds.com/>
> Cross Worlds Computing, MetaCard Distributors, Custom Development.
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>
Thanks Kevin, Now I have more questions....
Can't I start MC and then open a standalone from within MC?
If I can't, does that mean I can just create a simple standalone that never
changes and keep all my changes limited to the substack(s) the standalone
starts?
Does each substack need to be a separate .mc file?
In the earlier SuperCard version of my program I had a standalone which
opened other projects (each project containing several windows/stacks). I
only edited the projects that were called by the standalone. Does this
paradigm still work in MC?
Can someone give a simple example of how I would use the stackFiles property
from within a standalone? Would the standalone be the mainStack or do I set
up another stack as the mainStack?
Can you have multiple mainStacks open at the same time?
Ideally, I would like to have one file I would have to copy when I made
changes to the application. Maybe I will have to have separate files, one
for each stack but I need some help understanding my options.
Thank you for all your help.
Larry Huisingh
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