I have come to Rev fairly recently from HyperCard. One of the things I liked to do in HyperCard was creating custom handlers and having them available in any stack. Some of these handlers would refer to other stacks (usually in the same folder as the Home stack, so they could just be referred to by their short names rather than their full paths).
The easiest way to do this was to put the custom handlers into the Home stack script. A slightly more complicated way was to put them into the script of a separate stack and insert this line into the Home stack's startup handler: start using stack <stack_name>. After a bit of experimentation, I have worked out a way of doing the equivalent of this in Revolution: 1. Put a stack (e.g. "Launcher.rev") into the plugins folder. 2. Configure "Launcher.rev" to open when Revolution starts up. 3. With "Launcher.rev" open, execute 'toplevel this stack' with the message box to make the stack editable. 4. Put this handler into the stack script: on openStack insert the script of me into back put the filename of this stack into pluginsFldr set the itemdel to "/" delete last item of pluginsFldr set the defaultFolder to pluginsFldr & "/" end openStack 5. Paste the custom handler(s) into the stack script. 6. Save the stack. OK it works, but it seems like a very long-winded way of doing what I think should be a pretty common thing. Is there an easier way? (I hope so.) Isn't there the equivalent of a default "startUp" handler somewhere (like HyperCard's)? If so, I couldn't find it. Also, I'm a bit concerned about the lines 3-6 of the openStack handler above. It makes the plugins folder the defaultFolder. I'd really like to make ANOTHER folder the defaultFolder if possible: the folder where I put most of my Rev stacks (currently ~/Documents/Revolution stacks/), so I could just refer to stack files by their short names. Sorry if this question is very basic. Thanks, Jonathan Cooper Manager of Information / Website Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney, Australia http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
