Bob: Follow Devin's advice. Building a launcher (splash) app shouldn't be that complicated. The standalone just needs to be a simple minimal stack that launches your "real" main stack containing all your logic, sub stacks, etc.
Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media UX/UI Design > On Jun 2, 2015, at 9:35 AM, Bob Sneidar <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks Devin. > > With this approach I am finding that letting Livecode automatically find the > libraries it needs is not successful. First, none of my data grids work, even > though I have added a data grid to the splash stack. Second, none of the > image files I have referenced in the primary stack are being accessed. I > suppose I will need to manually add those as well to the application folder. > > I will, at the risk of sounding like I am whining, repeat the sentiment > others have expressed, that this is more difficult to get working than it > ought to be. > > Bob S > > > On Jun 2, 2015, at 09:21 , Devin Asay > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > On Jun 2, 2015, at 10:09 AM, Bob Sneidar > <[email protected]<mailto:[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. _______________________________________________ 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
