Stackfiles followup
My front scripts are now working OK after I addedd "of stack "xyz" to my insert commands as Jacqueline suggested. However, it looks like I have some wholesale changes to make to get my stackFiles working correctly with regard to my behavior scripts. The buttons that hold the behavior scripts are in a substack. I've included the name of the behaviors substack and it's main stack in the stackfiles, both pointing to the same file path but the behaviors still aren't recognised by the controls that point to them. I tried putting just the main stack into stackFiles and adding the statement "open stack "xyzsub of stack "xyz" - the behaviors still aren't recognised. The behaviors are specified in the form "button id 1234 of stack "xyzSub". I tried adding "of stack "xyz" after the behavior specifications but the IDE simply removes that text. At this point, it feels like I will have to put the behaviors onto a card in its own mainstack. The problem with that, I think, is that all the behavior buttons will end up with new IDs and I'll be left with hundreds of controls that point to a non-existant button ID. I guess I could write a script to go through all the controls that have behaviors and put the correct button IDs into them but looking for other suggestions before I do that. I guess I'm OK with not using stackfiles as long as the alternative deals with standalone applications OK and ti doesn't result in duplicated behavior code. Pete Haworth http://www.mollysrevenge.com http://www.sonicbids.com/MollysRevenge http://www.myspace.com/mollysrevengeband ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Stackfiles followup
On 15/02/2011, at 7:01 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > My front scripts are now working OK after I addedd "of stack "xyz" to my > insert commands as Jacqueline suggested. > > However, it looks like I have some wholesale changes to make to get my > stackFiles working correctly with regard to my behavior scripts. The buttons > that hold the behavior scripts are in a substack. I've included the name of > the behaviors substack and it's main stack in the stackfiles, both pointing > to the same file path but the behaviors still aren't recognised by the > controls that point to them. I tried putting just the main stack into > stackFiles and adding the statement "open stack "xyzsub of stack "xyz" - the > behaviors still aren't recognised. > > The behaviors are specified in the form "button id 1234 of stack "xyzSub". I > tried adding "of stack "xyz" after the behavior specifications but the IDE > simply removes that text. > > At this point, it feels like I will have to put the behaviors onto a card in > its own mainstack. The problem with that, I think, is that all the behavior > buttons will end up with new IDs and I'll be left with hundreds of controls > that point to a non-existant button ID. I guess I could write a script to go > through all the controls that have behaviors and put the correct button IDs > into them but looking for other suggestions before I do that. If you set the mainstack of the behaviors substack to itself and save it the ids won't change so that's a possibility. Probably the simplest thing to do is to leave everything as is and load the stackfile into memory at startup. From then on you can refer to all the stacks by name. You could hard code a relative path here and forget about stackfiles completely. Even better is to have a components folder that you parse the files of and load all stacks into memory. For added simplicity you could start using any stacks that have lib as the first 3 chars of their name. But to get you out of this hole just using something like this will load the stackfile: on startup get the short name of stack whatever end startup It sounds like there's an issue with the loading of behaviors via the stackfiles property if it's not doing what the docs say it should. Probably one last point to make is Trevor's excellent GLX application framework will handle all this stuff for you. Cheers Monte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Stackfiles followup
Thanks Monte, I'll give all of that a whirl. Pete Haworth http://www.mollysrevenge.com http://www.sonicbids.com/MollysRevenge http://www.myspace.com/mollysrevengeband On Feb 14, 2011, at 1:59 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > On 15/02/2011, at 7:01 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > >> My front scripts are now working OK after I addedd "of stack "xyz" to my >> insert commands as Jacqueline suggested. >> >> However, it looks like I have some wholesale changes to make to get my >> stackFiles working correctly with regard to my behavior scripts. The >> buttons that hold the behavior scripts are in a substack. I've included the >> name of the behaviors substack and it's main stack in the stackfiles, both >> pointing to the same file path but the behaviors still aren't recognised by >> the controls that point to them. I tried putting just the main stack into >> stackFiles and adding the statement "open stack "xyzsub of stack "xyz" - >> the behaviors still aren't recognised. >> >> The behaviors are specified in the form "button id 1234 of stack "xyzSub". >> I tried adding "of stack "xyz" after the behavior specifications but the IDE >> simply removes that text. >> >> At this point, it feels like I will have to put the behaviors onto a card in >> its own mainstack. The problem with that, I think, is that all the behavior >> buttons will end up with new IDs and I'll be left with hundreds of controls >> that point to a non-existant button ID. I guess I could write a script to >> go through all the controls that have behaviors and put the correct button >> IDs into them but looking for other suggestions before I do that. > > If you set the mainstack of the behaviors substack to itself and save it the > ids won't change so that's a possibility. Probably the simplest thing to do > is to leave everything as is and load the stackfile into memory at startup. > From then on you can refer to all the stacks by name. You could hard code a > relative path here and forget about stackfiles completely. Even better is to > have a components folder that you parse the files of and load all stacks into > memory. For added simplicity you could start using any stacks that have lib > as the first 3 chars of their name. But to get you out of this hole just > using something like this will load the stackfile: > > on startup > get the short name of stack whatever > end startup > > It sounds like there's an issue with the loading of behaviors via the > stackfiles property if it's not doing what the docs say it should. > > Probably one last point to make is Trevor's excellent GLX application > framework will handle all this stuff for you. > > Cheers > > Monte > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Stackfiles followup
>>> However, it looks like I have some wholesale changes to make to get my >>> stackFiles working correctly with regard to my behavior scripts. The >>> buttons that hold the behavior scripts are in a substack. I've included >>> the name of the behaviors substack and it's main stack in the stackfiles, >>> both pointing to the same file path but the behaviors still aren't >>> recognised by the controls that point to them. I tried putting just the >>> main stack into stackFiles and adding the statement "open stack "xyzsub of >>> stack "xyz" - the behaviors still aren't recognised. Hi Peter I just tested using the stackfiles property as the sole reference for behaviors (both those on a substack of a separate stackfile and on a mainstack of a separate stackfile) and it worked perfectly so there must be something else going on. Both stackfiles were in a stackfiles subdirectory where the engine wouldn't normally find them. One important thing about behaviors is the engine has to find them before opening the stack they are used on. Cheers Monte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Stackfiles followup
On Feb 14, 2011, at 3:01 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: The behaviors are specified in the form "button id 1234 of stack "xyzSub". I tried adding "of stack "xyz" after the behavior specifications but the IDE simply removes that text. Behavior references have to be in the form of a long id: set the behavior of btn "testBtn" to the long id of (button id 1234 of stack "xyzSub") Is that the problem? -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Stackfiles followup
Monte, Thanks for the update. I just changed all my code back to using the stackFiles property instead of using the code you suggested in the Startup event and now everything works! I have changed this code so many times now that I honestly can't remember what is different about it now that when it didn;t work. In any case, I'm happy it is now working and I can move on. Thanks to all who helped out with this. Pete Haworth http://www.mollysrevenge.com http://www.sonicbids.com/MollysRevenge http://www.myspace.com/mollysrevengeband On Feb 14, 2011, at 7:57 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: However, it looks like I have some wholesale changes to make to get my stackFiles working correctly with regard to my behavior scripts. The buttons that hold the behavior scripts are in a substack. I've included the name of the behaviors substack and it's main stack in the stackfiles, both pointing to the same file path but the behaviors still aren't recognised by the controls that point to them. I tried putting just the main stack into stackFiles and adding the statement "open stack "xyzsub of stack "xyz" - the behaviors still aren't recognised. > > Hi Peter > > I just tested using the stackfiles property as the sole reference for > behaviors (both those on a substack of a separate stackfile and on a > mainstack of a separate stackfile) and it worked perfectly so there must be > something else going on. Both stackfiles were in a stackfiles subdirectory > where the engine wouldn't normally find them. One important thing about > behaviors is the engine has to find them before opening the stack they are > used on. > > Cheers > > Monte > > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
