Hi Kee,
First, my questions are no where near as important as Pamela's, but perhaps they are easier to answer?
Question #1: removing a substack from a mainstack
I have a mainstack StackB and so that I could use XML when I compile it, I somehow managed to add revSOAP.rev into it. I am able to compile StackB and distribute it as a standalone to folks.
[StackB(revSOAP)]
Now, as I believe I have learned, you cannot have a mainstack (StackB) save changes to itself. If you want to do that, you need to create a splash screen stack as the mainstack (StackA), and then put the old mainstack (StackB) where data wants to be saved, as a substack of that splash screen stack (StackB).
Assuming this is correct, it is also my understanding that substacks (StackB) cannot have substacks (revSOAP). So how do I remove revSOAP from StackB so that I can import it as a separate substack in StackA along with StackB?
What I have: [StackA(StackB(revSOAP))] What I think I want: [StackA(StackB,revSOAP)]
This is a one-liner in the message box:
set the mainstack of stack "revSOAP" of stack "StackB" to "StackA" ##Enter :-)
Question #2: docs for apps with data saved in substacks
Where are the docs for understanding how to build a standalone that can retain data in substacks?
There is none that i know...?
But see my quick lesson below ;-)
I've looked at the example on the runrev site, I've looked through the 1.1.1 manuals, I've searched
the online docs and I've looked at Dan Shafer's Volume 1. I know this is supposed to be simple but
I cannot find the answer.
Since the user of your app MAY not have write access to the application folder!,
i do this all the time with BIG success :-)
Create your stack that you want to be saved later on the users hd...
Then put it into a customproperty of your main-/splash-screen/standalone stack:
...
set the stack2save of this stack to url"binfile:my_sub.rev"
...
Then "on preopenstack" check these folders in the little script below, where the
current user HAS definitively write access!, if your stack is already present...
If not, just spit it out :-D
on xxx
## Check platform and the appropriate "prefs"-folder...
switch the platform
case "MacOS"
put specialFolderPath("preferences") into spfp
break
case "Win32"
if the systemversion contains "NT" then
## Win 2000 and XP
put specialFolderPath(35) into spfp
else
## Win 95, 96, 97, 98, 99 :-D
put specialfolderpath("system") into spfp
### a.k.a. "The black hole"
end if
break
default
## Unix/Linux -> User home folder
put $HOME into spfp
break
end switch
if there is not a folder (spfp & "/folder of your company") then
create folder (spfp & "/folder of your company")
end if
## Optional :-)if there is not a file (spfp & "/folder of your company/stack2save") then
## probably first time...
put the stack2save of this stack into url("binfile:" & spfp & "/folder of your company/stack2save")
end if
go stack (spfp & "/folder of your company/stack2save")
end xxx
Et voila, a definitively save-able stack :-)
Hope that helps...
Thanks in advance, Kee Nethery
Regards
Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de
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