Re: Splash snafu

[Thomas J McGrath III]

This is the same problem I was having. I couldn't figure out why the 
splash stack was doing the open stack again and again. I have a lot of 
substacks. Well, I was using open stack handlers in my substacks and 
passing the openstack message myself. I was doing that to be "safe" 
since I wasn't 100% sure about the message paths in rev. Well it seems 
once again I was causing my own problems....

The learning curve just got shorter.

Thanks

Tom
On Dec 23, 2003, at 4:50 AM, Klaus Major wrote:
Hi Ken,

Howdy,

I open a mainstack splash which does some visual antics (wiil 
eventually
setup everything), sends itself to an offscreen location, then opens 
the GUI
project substack.

If I don't open the substack (comment out the last line), it works 
fine, but
if I open the substack, I get an error:

 "         executing at 1:23:41 AM
Type    Chunk: can't find background
Object    OutlookInn_Splash
Line    get the loc of group id 1006
Hint    stack "/Macintosh HD/Desktop
Folder/RevStacks_Mine/OutlookInn_Splash.rev"
...which refers to 3rd line of the *mainstack* openStack handler. The 
script
has already executed and is done.

Why is opening the substack trying to rerun the script of the 
mainstack?

The substack has no scripts.
...and thats the point!

Since it has no script of its own, it executes the mainstacks script:
(Substacks do this ;-)
...
on openStack
  get the screenrect
  set the loc of this stack to ((item 3 of it)/2,(item 4 of it)/2)
## OK

  get the loc of group id 1006
## probably no goup id 1006 in the substack "Outlookinn_Splash"!!!
## ergo: error :-(
Here's the script:

on openStack
  get the screenrect
  set the loc of this stack to ((item 3 of it)/2,(item 4 of it)/2)
  get the loc of group id 1006
...
  set the visible of fld 1 to true
  wait 5
  --open stack "OutlookInn_Top" --Here's the problem
end openStack
Solution:

put a generic "openstack" handler into the substack like:

on openstack
   ###
end openstack
...and it will work out fine :-)

Hope that helps...

TIA,
Ken N.
Regards

Klaus Major
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