On 11/5/00 5:14 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks Kevin, Now I have more questions....
>
> Can't I start MC and then open a standalone from within MC?
No.
> If I can't, does that mean I can just create a simple standalone that never
> changes and keep all my changes limited to the substack(s) the standalone
> starts?
You could - so long as whatever stack you were editing wasn't in the
standalone file.
> Does each substack need to be a separate .mc file?
No. And the files don't need to be ".mc" either.
> In the earlier SuperCard version of my program I had a standalone which
> opened other projects (each project containing several windows/stacks). I
> only edited the projects that were called by the standalone. Does this
> paradigm still work in MC?
Should do.
> Can someone give a simple example of how I would use the stackFiles property
> from within a standalone? Would the standalone be the mainStack or do I set
> up another stack as the mainStack?
The standalone is the mainStack. An article on using stackfiles is on our
web site.
> Can you have multiple mainStacks open at the same time?
Yes. Though be sure you don't get confused about the message path: messages
will always go through the mainStack passed to the standalone, but will only
go through the other mainStacks if called from inside that mainStack or a
subStack of that mainStack (messages don't travel through all open
mainStacks).
Hope this info. helps: this stuff is all a little difficult to get to grips
with at first, but if you try it out and get used to it it should make more
sense!
Regards,
Kevin
> Ideally, I would like to have one file I would have to copy when I made
> changes to the application. Maybe I will have to have separate files, one
> for each stack but I need some help understanding my options.
>
> Thank you for all your help.
>
> Larry Huisingh
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