Message: 26
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:30:22 -0600
From: "J. Landman Gay" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Saving standalone substacks
To: How to use Revolution <[email protected]>
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James Hurley wrote:
Things I didn't know:
1) I thought I would be saving to a substack.
Substacks -- the ones embedded into a main stack -- become part of the
standalone. Executables can't save data to themselves, no matter how
many stacks they are composed of. So yeah, you need separate stacks on
disk if you want to save them.
2) I was unaware of the "shutDownRequest" handler.
Another question or two.
1) How would "StackRunner" differ from using my own splash screen?
2) How would "Revolution Player" differ from using my own splash
screen?
I don't think either of these would be much different. They are both
basically splash standalones, though Rev's player has a few more
restrictions I think. But with either of these, you'd need to put your
saving instructions into each satellite stack, or else into a
backscript
that you insert when your first stack opens. That's because both of
these are already built standalones, so to add any scripted behavior
you
have to use another stack to store the scripts in.
(snip)
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
Jacque,
Thanks again. I put all of this to good use and it all seems to be
working.
But I foresee one problem. I am setting up a utility for a local
volunteer group.
There will surely be occasion for upgrades and bug fixes down the
road. And all of this after they have made additional data entries in
the stand alone.
It would be possible for me to incorporate a means of extracting all
the data entry work they have performed, make changes in the original
satellite stack in the RunRev IDE, repopulate the fields with saved
data and return it to them for further use.
What would be soooo much easier if I would have access to the
satellite stack itself. All the data would be intact and I could
easily make the changes in the IDE and send it back as a stand alone.
There would seem to be an advantage to using StackRunner or the RunRev
Player in that the satellite stack is still intact and more easily
modified.
Is there some was in the stand alone to make a clone of the satellite
stack, or in some other way recreate the stack as a dot rev and
available to the IDE?
Jim Hurley
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