Rob Cozens wrote:

> I had a conversation with Kevin Miller about this some time ago, as I
> was looking at the feasibility of writing updater stacks that could
> bring older versions of an application up to present specs.  My
> recollection was Kevin said it might be possible to replace an
> existing button with the old script with a new button with the new
> script; but it was not possible replace the existing script in the
> old button.

There's also the insurmountable issue that Win and UNIX/Linux will notallow
an app to modify itself.  For consistency the engine carries this over to
Mac as well.

The commonly-used solution is to externalize updateable components into
separate stack files outside of the standalone.

-- 
 Richard Gaskin 
 Fourth World Media Corporation
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