easy externals question

[Ken Ray]

On 9/25/04 3:09 PM, "FlexibleLearning at aol.com" <FlexibleLearning at aol.com>
wrote:

>  
>  
> Thanks, Chipp... Shame that a mainstack cannot benefit from a substack's
> externals. This would make distributed mainstack programs immediately
> operational. The way it works at present is "Welcome to the program! Please
> quit  and 
> start again for it to work."

Actually, Hugh, you *can* make a mainstack benefit from another stack's
externals - start using that stack as a library. I do that for a program for
one of my clients: We need to connect to a Valentina database, but it could
either be a server one or a standalone one (both are different externals). I
have two stacks that contain the externals, and based on the the choice made
by the user at login, I "start using" the appropriate stack.

HTH,

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com