I can see now why people strongly advise NOT to use the substacks feature. It is none too compatible with standalone building.
Bob S > On Jun 2, 2015, at 09:19 , Mike Bonner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yep, a substack can't be a mainstack too. > > To make this work, its simple enough to just add the stack that has all > your logic and substacks to the files pane, and add code to your > splashstack stack that looks for and loads it. (go stack "path/to/stack") > > Somewhere around here I have a launcher stack that I have used that I can > drag and drop stack files on. It adds their path to the list, and from > that point I can use it to run whatever stack I wish. The same logic > applies. As long as your splashstack knows where to find a stack, and as > long as it has the right inclusions for whatever you are doing with your > stack, it should be able to open it. > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Bob Sneidar <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi all. >> >> So I am creating a standalone for the first time, and I am trying to use a >> splash stack. Taking the advice of others I have added a data grid to the >> splash stack so that the data grid library get added. Now when I attempt to >> set the mainstack of the actual stack that contains all the business logic, >> it fails. I think I might know why, but I’ll ask to be sure. >> >> The actual application stack has a number of substacks already. I am >> thinking that a substack cannot itself contain other substacks. If this is >> true, I will have to break out all of my other stacks as single files, then >> add them as substacks to the mainstack. >> >> If this is true, I can see why new users have problems creating >> standalones at first. It is a rather convoluted way of going about things. >> If not, then I am at a loss to know why I cannot set the mainstack property >> of a given stack. >> >> I have also tried using the message box: >> set the mainStack of stack "Forms Generator" to "Forms Generator Splash” >> >> I get: >> Script compile error: >> Error description: >> >> Bob S >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
