BvG Docu and home stack in Metacard

[Ken Ray]

> I'd be really glad if you guys could tell me what needs fixing for it 
> to work properly with the Metacard IDE.

Well, I took a quick look today and basically it boils down to what you 
take advantage of from the Rev environment by default (inherited fonts, 
the fact that the XML external is automatically loaded, etc. To make it 
"MC-compatible", I'd do three things:

1) When your stack opens, check the revAppVersion() - if it comes back 
as "0", you're running in MetaCard.
2) Explicitly define the fonts, sizes, styles etc of all your fields 
and buttons, or define it from your stack and have the objects inherit 
it 
3) Add a substack to your main stack window called something like 
"BVGExternals" and a custom property to your main stack window to hold 
a path to the revXML external. When you launch check to see if you're 
in MC. If you are, check the custom property to see if it has a value. 
If it doesn't, ask the user to locate the revXML external and store the 
path in the custom property. If it *does* have a value, verify there's 
a file at that path. Once you're sure you have the external available, 
dynamically "set the externals" of stack "BVGExternals" to the revXML 
external path, and then bring the BVGExternals stack into use with 
"start using stack 'BVGExternals'". This will load the revXML external 
on the fly and make it available to your main stack window.

After that, the rest *should* work... 

BTW: Thanks for doing this! I think this will add great benefit to the 
MC IDE!


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