easy externals question

[Ken Ray]

On 9/27/04 9:17 AM, "FlexibleLearning at aol.com" <FlexibleLearning at aol.com>
wrote:

>  
>  
> We have progress in my quest for structural simplicity :-)
>  
> As Ken said, Externals can be stored in another stack and accessed with
> 'start using' . But the stack does NOT have to be another stackFile... A
> substack 
> works just as well, contrary to what I said before (which is  probably what
> Ken meant in the first place and I mis-interpreted it!)
>  
> on preOpenStack
>   put requiredExternalFilePaths() into tDLLs
>   if the externals of stack "mySubStack" is not tDLLs then
>     set the externals of stack "mySubStack" to tDLLs
>     open inv stack "mySubStack" # with destroyStack set to  true
>     close stack "mySubStack"
>     start using stack "mySubStack"
>   end if
> end preOpenStack
>  
> Result is that the External/s can be set dynamically AND be immedaitely
> available for use.

VERY Cool, Hugh! I didn't know you could do that!

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
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Email: kray at sonsothunder.com