Thanks Monte and Mark. The first thing I need to do is insert the scripts of a couple of button in one of the substacks as front scripts. In the same substack, I have a bunch of buttons whose scripts are referred to as behaviors from controls within my application. There are also a couple of other stacks that I refer to for various reasons from my application.
The intent of all this is to have a library of reusable code available to any and all applications I write. I was given the stackfiles methodology some time ago by someone on this list, but perhaps it's not the best way to achieve what I want to do? Pete Haworth On Feb 13, 2011, at 7:17 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
