Hello, Apologies for the length of this, but I'd very much like list help to understand better a scripting practice I've been doing half-baked for a long time now.
It has to do with stackFiles (I think?), the steps for implementing which I describe below, but first precede with an outline of what I'm after. Essentially, this is the structure of my standalone and stacks: AllMightyStack.exe --> Index-stack.livecode --> gamestacks1-8.livecode The role of AllMightyStack.exe: -- opens up Index-stack.livecode -- stays open but hidden in background -- (most importantly!) contains handlers/functions and global variables -- but no controls/objects -- that can be called by the index-stack and each of the gamestacks simply by name (ie, without having to specify a path) The role of Index-stack.rev: -- shows the user some buttons, clicking which opens up one of the various gamestacks -- stays open but hidden in background, so that, when a gamestack is done with, the user returns to Index-stack to either choose a different gamestack or quit -- does not contain handlers or controls referenced to by any other stack To do the above, here are my steps: STEP 1) place the following script in card 1 of AllMightyStack.exe: on openCard setUpFoundation end openCard on setUpFoundation put "Index-stack,Index-stack.rev" & cr & "game1,game1.rev" & cr & \ "game2,game2.rev" & cr & .... & cr & "animationEngine,animationEngine.rev" \ into tStackFiles set the stackFiles of stack "Mainstack.exe" to tStackFiles ... open stack "Index-stack" hide stack "Mainstack" end setUpFoundation STEP 2) in Livecode open the property-inspector for stack "AllMightyStack.rev" and then in the "Stack files" panel add Index-Stack and all the game-stacks. After which, I save as a standalone. STEP 3) repeat the above two steps for Index-stack.rev Anyway, I'm guessing I don't need to do STEP 3. But now I'm also guessing STEP 2 is superfluous. Or is it? Of course, I've read the documentation. But... Hope that all makes sense. Thank you -- for your help and forbearance. -- Nicolas Cueto _______________________________________________ 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
