thanks, i will take your advice on isolating my handlers. there were really only a few that were needed.
my problem now is that "breakPoint" is not acting as a debug breakpoint and i can not step through my handlers. --- Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > erik hansen wrote: > > > i have completed the first MetaCard tutorial > and > > Jacquie's HC > MC tutorial and am beginning > my > > first conversion, starting with my HC home > stack. > > > > rather than list all the errors i am getting, > are > > there any general guidelines for converting > the > > Home stack? > > > > if i copy my startup handler and a few others > > (xy) then past them into the mchome.mc stack > > would that be a good start? > > Two problems will occur using the Home stack as > an example: > > 1. You will have two stacks of the same name > open (yours and MC's) > > 2. The HC Home stack is chock full o' > dependence on externals and HC's > object model. > > If you really need some of the functionality of > HC's home stack, you might > consider moving those handlers one at a time > into a stack of your own. This > way you can identify and resolve issues one at > a time. > > When you have your stack done, you can have it > in use by adding a "start > using" statement to MC's home stack. > > Why not just put those handlers in MC's own > home stack? Here's what I've > learned about making changes to the MC > environment: Scott Raney is so darn > quick with his many-updates-each-year way of > working, it'll take you less > than a year to get tired of moving your changes > from one version to the > next. Externalizing script libraries and and > using "start using" to access > them is a good method, and if you must make > changes to the MC environment (I > make a few dozen with each release, mostly > aesthetic touches), consider > putting those changes into a script so you can > run it each time a new build > of MC is released. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Media Corporation > Custom Software and Web Development for All > Major Platforms > Developer of WebMerge 1.9: Publish any > Database on Any Site > > ___________________________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.FourthWorld.com > Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: > FourthWorldInc > > _______________________________________________ > metacard mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.erikhansen.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
