Pete- Sunday, February 13, 2011, 6:49:41 PM, you wrote:
> Need some clarification on the use of the stackFiles property. I > have a file, xzy.livecode. It has a mainstack and several > substacks. I need access to the mainstack and some of the substacks > in my application. I set up a stackFiles entry referring to the main > stack with a path to the stack file, thinking that would get me > access to all the substacks but it looks like I have to set up a > stackFiles entry for each substack as well as the main stack, is > that correct? Well, personally I never touch the stackfiles property. I suppose it's got value if you need to package extra files that aren't substacks in a standalone application, and Monte no doubt can comment to this. So it depends on what you mean by "I need access". You want to refer to objects or properties in the substacks? You don't need to do anything special. Just refer to them by object-of-stack and you're done. But since that's so easy I'm guessing you mean something else. You need to get to scripts in your substacks? The easiest way is to issue the statement "start using stack abc", where abc is the name of the substack. That will make the substack a library stack, and the handlers in its script will be available to your main stack. If you just need access to a few handlers in a substack script then you might want to check out the "value" keyword, although I find its syntax clumsy enough that I use it sparingly and try to refactor things so that the function I'm trying to call ends up in the mainstack script. And then there are the "send" and "dispatch" commands. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
