BvG Docu and home stack in Metacard

[Björnke von Gierke]

Thank you for your hints.

Unfortunately i can't get metacard. Is there any resource on the web 
that explains what one needs to do, if one has Rev, but no Metacard 
installed yet?

I fainthly remember I need another license number from rev, gonna mail 
support for that...

I also browsed the files in the metacard yahoo group, but couldn't find 
the metacard ide, only the mctools.mc stack. Where do I get the full MC 
IDE from?

Neither the runrev.com nor the metacard.com site seems to contain any 
related information.

So... ???
Björnke

On 08 Jun 2007, at 07:24, Ken Ray wrote:

>> 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/
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