On 6/2/2015 11:30 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
I can see now why people strongly advise NOT to use the substacks feature. It is none too compatible with standalone building.
The option for this in standalone settings moves existing substacks out of the mainstack and into individual files on disk. This creates the same structure as the splash stack you are currently trying to make manually. It works fine, the warning you may be remembering is to advise people that the final structure will change a bit, and their code may need to accomodate that.
A splash stack is just a shell containing the LC engine. It typically contains nothing but a single card with a splash/startup image (thus the name) and has almost no working code at all except the handler that opens the "real" stack. It opens the working mainstack as a document rather than as an app so that you can save the changes and they will stick, which an app can't do. You can think of a splash stack as nothing but the LC engine with only a few scripted commands tossed in.
Sometimes I do include substacks in my splash. These typically contain things that never change and the app needs for all the other separate document stacks it opens, such as icon libraries or printing templates. But all the main working code is in the document mainstack which the splash app opens.
If you do not ever need to save changes to the stack, you don't need to use the splash stack method. Just build the mainstack as the app and do not choose to separate the substacks. It will behave as it does during development.
The reason "search for inclusions" isn't a good choice when using a splash stack is because the search looks through all the scripts to find references about what to include. A splash stack very rarely has much code, and searching will reveal nothing. It's easy enough to just select the libraries you know you'll need.
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