I am also very late coming to the script only stacks party.

It would be wonderful to have some kind of big "shoot the breeze" conference 
call with a few LC engineers at the meeting, just to talk about the potential 
uses of script only stacks in terms of the presentation layer. For one that has 
been working inside RevIgniter now for nearly three years, the world of text 
only scripts and the advantages of that environment have become second nature. 
But the presentation layer is HTML/CSS...

In an LC stack/standalone environment the card(plus controls, graphics, images) 
is the presentation layer  AND since a card  "comes along for the ride." One 
wonders if a text-only framework to instantiate the visible GUI with a full set 
of params to create all the objects and their properties.. has any value. Then 
you could check in and check out these stacks in GIT hub.

OTOH:  that seems like it could get complicated.
OTOH:   it means one could transfer a lot of the experience from RevIgniter's 
MVC paradigm over to a LiveCode only universe

One wonders of the business license, which has some secret framework for 
collaboration, will be doing this... The business license might be more 
interesting if one knew exact what it was.

Musing.... in theory one could keep the card layer very, very lean and then put 
everything (whatever that might be) else into script only stacks as appears to 
be the case with the IDE... then the potential to off load development 
modularly to different team members starts to become doable.

Obviously, the team at Edinborough is way, way out front of us all on this and 
if they were to put on some kind of live web panel, on the potential uses for 
script only stacks and put that on YouTube.. that would be enlightening...

I could help some of us pick up on their lead... I don't mind being a 
follower.. it's better than wondering in the forest with no direction. A jump 
start would be nice.

BR


On February 19, 2016 at 2:57:18 PM, William Prothero 
([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) wrote:

> > Just wondering about script only stacks. I use a lot of substacks to
> > hold various script resources, and it looks like there might be just
> > a bit less overhead in script only stacks.
> >
> > BUT, can script only stacks be substacks?
>
> No. A substack is part of the native binary stack structure of a normal 
> stack. As such, only other native binary stacks can be used as substacks, and 
> only in a native binary mainstack.
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