On 3/30/05 6:28 PM, Timothy Miller wrote:
When I'm done with all this stuff, do I need to convert my backgrounds to sub-stacks?
No, substacks are a different thing. Backgrounds are backgrounds, just like in HC, only they have additional behaviors in Rev, so they are also called "groups". The distinction is subtle, and use of the terms "group" and "background" need to vary depending on the placement of the groups. But for your imported stacks, continue to refer to them as backgrounds, and use them as you always have. Your stacks should act just as they do in HC and your scripts should work the same. You don't need to do anything different for now (but later, when you discover the power of groups, you will use them more fully and change your terminology.)
If I open my stacks in Rev (they will open -- I've tried it -- I've paid for Dreamcard on three platforms), does Rev automatically re-define my backgrounds as substacks? If so, does Rev do that correctly?
It correctly keeps them as background groups, just as they were in HC. As long as you have only one group (i.e., background) per card -- which will always be the case in a converted HC stack -- you can ignore the "group" terminology for now and just use the syntax you are used to.
Later, if you want to add more than one group to a card, you'll have to learn new tricks. :)
As for substacks, they are just regular stacks that are stored together in the same file on disk. In HC we could use multiple stacks but they were all sitting loose on the hard drive. In Rev, you can combine multiple stacks into the same file on disk. They are still separate stacks but you only have one physical file. However, because they all share certain attributes, the message hierarchy changes somewhat and some other behavioral differences can pop up. But they are still just stacks.
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