Thanks, I think I remember what the issue was now. If you want your stacks to be writable, they cannot be part of the app. Is that correct? So if the application has the need to save things like persistent properties and such, you HAVE to separate the substacks, thereby making them runnable in the IDE.
So the only real solution it seems to me is to password protect all the substacks before compiling, and then write code into the stacks to prevent them from running if they are the topStack of themselves. Bob On Mar 31, 2014, at 10:37 , J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: > On 3/31/14, 10:10 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: >> It was my impression that the mainstack gets*glued* together with >> the runtime engine and is not accessible in the same way the >> substacks are, which are merely included in a subfolder or in the >> case of OS X, in the package. Is this no longer the case? Or have I >> simply misunderstood all this time? > > If the substacks are true substacks, they are "glued" to the engine the same > way the mainstack is. This is the standard way substacks work. All stacks in > a standalone are part of the same file on disk and received the same > protection. > > However, there is a checkbox in standalone settings that allows you to save > out substacks as separate files during the build. If you choose to do that, > then they are no longer substacks, they are removed from the file and turned > into individual document stacks. Those are the same as any other stack you'd > use during development and as such, they are no longer part of your app. > They're just loose in the folder (or in the bundle on Macs) and can be opened > by anyone with a copy of LiveCode, no tricks required. The scripts will be > obscured if the stack is password protected but everything else, including > properties, will be accessible because it's just a plain old stack now. > > So if you want the same protection you'd get in the mainstack, just make sure > you don't have that checkbox selected. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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
