Home stack conversion from HC

[erik hansen]

thanks, i will take your advice on isolating my
handlers. there were really only a few that were
needed.

my problem now is that "breakPoint" is not acting
as a debug breakpoint and i can not step through
my handlers.

--- Richard Gaskin <ambassador at FourthWorld.com>
wrote:
> erik hansen wrote:
> 
> > i have completed the first MetaCard tutorial
> and
> > Jacquie's HC > MC tutorial and am beginning
> my
> > first conversion, starting with my HC home
> stack.
> > 
> > rather than list all the errors i am getting,
> are
> > there any general guidelines for converting
> the
> > Home stack?
> > 
> > if i copy my startup handler and a few others
> > (xy) then past them into the mchome.mc stack
> > would that be a good start?
> 
> Two problems will occur using the Home stack as
> an example:
> 
> 1.  You will have two stacks of the same name
> open (yours and MC's)
> 
> 2.  The HC Home stack is chock full o'
> dependence on externals and HC's
> object model.
> 
> If you really need some of the functionality of
> HC's home stack, you might
> consider moving those handlers one at a time
> into a stack of your own.  This
> way you can identify and resolve issues one at
> a time.
> 
> When you have your stack done, you can have it
> in use by adding a "start
> using" statement to MC's home stack.
> 
> Why not just put those handlers in MC's own
> home stack?   Here's what I've
> learned about making changes to the MC
> environment:  Scott Raney is so darn
> quick with his many-updates-each-year way of
> working, it'll take you less
> than a year to get tired of moving your changes
> from one version to the
> next.  Externalizing script libraries and and
> using "start using" to access
> them is a good method, and if you must make
> changes to the MC environment (I
> make a few dozen with each release, mostly
> aesthetic touches), consider
> putting those changes into a script so you can
> run it each time a new build
> of MC is released.
> 
> -- 
>  Richard Gaskin 
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