Moving to MC 2.7

[J. Landman Gay]

Tariel Gogoberidze wrote:
> 
> On  Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:44:16 -0500, J. Landman Gay wrote:

>> Did you add the startup script to the first card of your home stack?
>> That prevents the problem.
>>
>> on startup
>>    if the version >= "2.7" then
>>      -- open stack "mctools.mc" -- for Windows
>>      start using stack "mctools.mc"
>>      set the defaultStack to "home"
>>      reset cursors
>>    end if
>>    pass startup
>> end startup
> 
> Yes, except I don't have "Pass startup" because a while ago you  advised 
> me that while it would not harm it doesn't make sense to have it in this 
> case :)

That shouldn't matter, it's true. Maybe the order of the commands does 
though. You could try the above and see if it is any different. It works 
here.

> other than the ID's of the icons are in range from 330 to 850 and may be 
> new engine has now this range reserved?

I don't think they changed their reserved range. And Rev still includes 
MetaCard icons, so I think those should be valid.

> Before building PowerPC standalone I moved "icon chooser" sub stack to 
> my stack via "Resource Mover" and when opening this stack in MC 2.7 Dev 
> environment the icon shows up fine. But after I'm building standalone, 
> the icon is disappearing (no icon at all).

This is probably a stupid question, but did you save the stack after 
adding the icons? I'm sure you probably did, but it doesn't hurt to ask 
the obvious. You could try adding them to stack again and then checking 
to make sure the group is really in the stack. Maybe something went 
wrong with the resource mover. It's a long shot, I admit.


> I hope so, I followed Ken's very clear instructions exactly and made 
> special runtime for UB using Rev's  runtime from "Universal" folder

That should have worked. I guess I don't know why it didn't.

> OK, thanks for this info. It's probably more convenient to just build 
> standalone in Rev but  I wanted to avoid "Rev Junk" placed in my 
> standalone. Some of my stacks are "image intensive" and this 200 - 1000 
> millisecond speed difference that Wilhelm discovered would matter.

I think Wilhelm was doing some very intensive tests. I haven't noticed 
any speed difference at all wiwth standalones built in Rev. And while I 
don't disagree he got different timings in his tests, I haven't had any 
problem with speed. If you can't get the MC builder to work, you could 
try Rev. I've had good luck with it.

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