Answer and Ask Dialogues

[Klaus Major]

Hi David,

> On 15/07/07, Klaus Major <klaus at major-k.de> wrote:
>
> > Are the stack names fixed in the engine (now that would be a bad  
> idea)
>
> I'm afraid this is the case.
>
> OK - that officially sucks

Not as much as you might think.

You can of course create your own dialogs, as long as they are named  
"Ask/Answer dialog"
and can be found by the engine.

> MC uses other differnet stacks (stored as "Answer dialog" and "Ask
> dialog" as substacks of "mctools.mc")
> than Rev (stored as individual stacks named " revaskdialog.rev" and
> "revanswerdialog.rev" in folder "Toolset"
> in the app folder.
>
>  So the only way round this bit is to either ignore the name clash  
> - or rename the dialogs or possibly in the case of the RunRev IDE  
> remove the association linked in the stackfiles.
>
> Does anyone know where RunRev stores the stackfile associations  
> (which stack) - I think there is no way of finding out other than  
> searching each stack.

In "the stackfiles of stack home"

> > What are the issues about having both IDE's available within the
> > same process?
>
> I'm not sure, but I think they both demand a "home" stack on startup
> and Rev uses another home stack than MC.
> And Rev's home stack is locked!
>
> > Can't we just switch between the two - toggling library scripts
> > In fact taking that to an extreme - what would it take to make a
> > plugin that closed down the Rev IDe and launched the MC IDE, and
> > vice versa?
>
> I have no idea.
>
> OK - I'll have a little play. MC uses one stack and one front and  
> back script - the problems is the name clash with the various  
> dialogs. Maybe a startup script can reanme these  stacks depending  
> in which environment they are opened in...

Best

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de