> From: J. Landman Gay > > > The dummy stack trick is just a clever work-around to allow you to load > an external on demand. It isn't required. It sounds like what changed > was the standalone builder rather than the way externals work, but I'm > not sure either how that works under the hood. > > Sometimes I wish that dummy stack trick hadn't been announced. It's very > handy when you need it for some reason in particular, but it causes a > lot of confusion too. I never use it.
The reason I've been using it is that I'm building externals for Windows and OS X, and the name of the external file (the extension, actually) is different. This means I need to run a bit of Rev code to build the correct pathname, using ".dll" under Windows and ".bundle" under OS X. You can't do that if you make the pathname a static property of the main stack. Another way to do it is to build one external, then edit the property, and build the other. But that makes the process of building the external, something that one may do over and over, very tedious. I posted a feature suggestion in the forum that you be allowed to leave the extension off, and have the run-time library automatically add the extension appropriate to the platform when it loads the extension, so that this would all be unnecessary. Alternatively, the action of saving the standalone could supply the correct extension. Or, the stack could be given separate properties for the externals for different OSes, so you could set all of them differently. If you have a better way to deal with this in the present version, I'm all ears. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul mailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com _______________________________________________ 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
