Substacks Editing and Visibility
I was trying to update a stack I wrote a couple of years ago (in my revAdolescence stage) and moved what had been several separate stacks into substacks of the main stack. One of those stacks was a debug stack that I can use to send logging information as the program runs. It is marked as visible but ever since moving it into the mainstack, I can't see it anymore. It is there because using tRev, I can get a snapshot of the stack and it indeed has the information I've been writing to it there. So my first question is: Can you have a separate window composed of a substack of the main window/stack, or are will I have to pull this out as a separate stack file in order to see it? The location looks ok and as I said, the visible property is true. My second question has to do with editing substacks. CAN I edit a substack or do I have to pull it out, edit it, and then put it back as a substack of the main stack? What I'm after in the end is a single (or as close as I can get to it) stack for updating. Thanks, len morgan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Substacks Editing and Visibility
Len- Friday, March 12, 2010, 9:41:42 AM, you wrote: So my first question is: Can you have a separate window composed of a substack of the main window/stack, or are will I have to pull this out as a separate stack file in order to see it? The location looks ok and as I said, the visible property is true. go stack subStackName should do the trick, if I understand the problem correctly. My second question has to do with editing substacks. CAN I edit a substack or do I have to pull it out, edit it, and then put it back as a substack of the main stack? Editing substacks shouldn't be a problem. Are you saying you're unable to do this or haven't you tried it yet? -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Substacks Editing and Visibility
On 3/12/2010 11:50 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Len- Friday, March 12, 2010, 9:41:42 AM, you wrote: So my first question is: Can you have a separate window composed of a substack of the main window/stack, or are will I have to pull this out as a separate stack file in order to see it? The location looks ok and as I said, the visible property is true. go stacksubStackName should do the trick, if I understand the problem correctly. That worked but I don't understand why. I'd like to have that stack just lurking around or minimized so I can bring it up when I want to look at it. Clicking back on my original stack seems to leave both there and operational. I'm just curious what go stack xxx does that makes it pop up when I've already start(ed) using stack xxx My second question has to do with editing substacks. CAN I edit a substack or do I have to pull it out, edit it, and then put it back as a substack of the main stack? Editing substacks shouldn't be a problem. Are you saying you're unable to do this or haven't you tried it yet? I haven't tried yet but I remember something on the list about editing substacks. It could have been that someone had both a substack and a real stack by the same name in the same folder and they we'ren't seeing the changes in the substack because they were editing the real stack. I'm sure this will probably work though. len ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Substacks Editing and Visibility
Len- Friday, March 12, 2010, 10:01:08 AM, you wrote: That worked but I don't understand why. I'd like to have that stack just lurking around or minimized so I can bring it up when I want to look at it. Clicking back on my original stack seems to leave both there and operational. I'm just curious what go stack xxx does that makes it pop up when I've already start(ed) using stack xxx Start using adds the script to the existing library stacks in memory. Go makes the target stack the default stack and shows it on the screen (assuming it's visible). You've got a few options for opening it in lurk mode: you could go invisible and just show the stack when you want to; you could set the loc of the substack to somewhere off-screen and bring it back when you wanted to show it, you could just go to it when you wanted it on screen (no need to go at any time before that), etc. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Substacks Editing and Visibility
snip I haven't tried yet but I remember something on the list about editing substacks. It could have been that someone had both a substack and a real stack by the same name in the same folder and they we'ren't seeing the changes in the substack because they were editing the real stack. I'm sure this will probably work though. It is fairly daft to have a substack with the same name as the mainstack: things are bound to get confused sooner rather than later. If it is important that the mainstack and the substack have the same thing written in their title bars then give them different names but make sure their titles are the same. After all if one has 2 stacks with the same name (whether 2 mainstacks, 2 substacks or ... ), for instance called SAMENAME, and you execute something like this: set the backgroundColor of stack SAMENAME to pink all sorts of things could ensue . . . :) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
