Opening Rev stacks in MC (was Re: metacard digest, Vol 1 #57 - 18 msgs)

[Peter J. Bower, M.D.]

Most of the time if you just change the revolution file extension to *.mc.
It will open directly from mc. Occasionally the stack will "look funny" in
its layout, but all scripts and objects are available is you look around.

P Bower
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <jeanne at runrev.com>
To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 3:49 PM
Subject: Opening Rev stacks in MC (was Re: metacard digest, Vol 1 #57 - 18
msgs)


> At 1:35 AM -0800 1/9/2002, JJB wrote:
> >> You can develop in Rev and then
> >> open the stack in Metacard (starter kit).  Now save.  Presto!  You have
> >> a metacard stack.
> >
> >I tried to do that (open a Rev stack in MetaCard). No way. So how do you
> >manage?
>
> You're probably running into the file type filtering in the Open dialog.
> MetaCard I believe filters its Open dialog by type signature/extension so
> it only shows MC stacks.
>
> You can get around this easily by typing this in the message box:
>
>   answer file "Open which file?";if the result is empty then open stack it
>
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