Holy moley! First test of Revolution versus Metacard

[Tereza Snyder]

On Aug 31, 2006, at 6:57 AM, Shari wrote:

> Now that I have Revolution up and running and Metacard 2.7 up and  
> running I thought I'd open my biggest fully finished project and  
> see how it fared with both.
> ...
> The stack opens.  But the Revolution IDE does not like that I have  
> standard stacks installed in the stack.  (For ease of Standalone  
> building, a long time ago I installed custom versions of Ask,  
> Answer, Message etc. in the stack so that I would not have to  
> import them every time I built a standalone.)  The Message box in  
> particular gives it fits.  I could not determine whether my  
> password protections were still in place.  (The Message Box errors  
> seemed to override most of what I tried to experiment with.)
>

Hi Shari,

When I need the standard stacks in my standalones, I make copies of  
them and include the copies as substacks of my splash stack. Then on  
startup, I rename the stacks with:

  if not(there is a stack "xxx") then set the name of stack "copy of  
xxx" to "xxx"

This also makes a way for me to customize the appearance or behavior  
of the standard stacks so they fit with my application.

But I'm curious, when would you need the message box in a finished  
application? Rev's message box, with its extra features, would hardly  
be suitable, though MetaCard's plain ole box would I suppose be more  
neutral.

t



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Tereza Snyder

    Califex Software, Inc.
    www.califexsoftware.com