Hi Charles,
You can do a LOT with a substack without officially opening it.
- I'm assuming you're talking about a substack of a stack that's already
open. If so, the substack is already in memory.
- You can get/set its properties.
- You can run its handlers by invoking them directly:
send "doSomething" to stack "sub1".
- If you 'start using' the substack, you can use its image object IDs as
icon IDs of your mainstack buttons. (It'll sometimes work even if you
don't 'start using' it, but it'll *definitely* work if you do.)
You can do all these same things to any unopened stack. But in the case
of an unopened stack that's not already in memory, the first thing that
happens when you "touch" it in any way is that is gets loaded into
memory. This means you can preload stacks into memory before opening
them by just referencing something about them. Then later when you "go
to" them, the navigation doesn't take as long. This can be helpful if
you're going to a large stack.
HTH.
Phil Davis
Charles Hartman wrote:
I'm not clear about when a substack "exists." I want to set some custom
properties in a substack from a script in the main stack, and it would
be a lot handier if I could do it before issuing the "open" command for
the substack. It seems to work OK during my development cycle in the
IDE. But will it work (in a stack being run under the Dreamcard Player)
the first time out of the box? Or do I have to issue an "open" command
before Rev will know the substack exists, and where to put stuff in it?
The substack is part of the stack file, so is it true that Rev knows
all about it, and properties (custom or built-in) can be set before
it's opened? The IDE's own evidence is kind of mixed: the Application
Browser knows the substack while it's closed, but the Inspector doesn't.
Charles Hartman
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