I came to this conclusion over a year ago and have had refactoring away from it on the back burner. No longer. I went through my code and divorced myself from this addictive coding habit.
Bob S > On Dec 16, 2019, at 09:15 , Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Upshot - never use the defaultFolder to find stackfiles - unless they are > passed in by the user as arguments in a command-line context. There's > 'specialFolderPath's for various places these days (most noticeable resources > and engine); but you can also just grok the filename property of your > mainstack too. (The stackFiles property can be useful here too - this allows > mapping arbitrary stack names to filepaths, which if relative are relative to > the stack on which the stackFiles property is set). > > Warmest Regards, > > Mark. > > -- > Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ _______________________________________________ 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