stacks that make stacks

Monte Goulding monte at sweattechnologies.com
Thu Aug 21 21:15:00 EDT 2003


>
> A customer has brought us an old training stack that they want moved
> from Hypercard to something that runs on MSWindows, and I just noticed
> that the grading function produces stacks, not files. And then I clicked
> on one of those stacks yesterday, and the grade results stacks
> multiplied like rabbits. I'm not sure whether the customer really cares
> whether the grade stacks can also reproduce, but they will probably want
> the training stack to produce at least one complete set of grades stacks.
>
> I know I've read something on this somewhere, but can Revolution can
> make stacks that make stacks?

yes
>
> And, if it can, does distributing a stack that makes a stack induce
> licensing issues?

no

Check out create and clone commands. If it's just data storage then you
might want:
create invisible stack "MyStack"
save stack "MyStack" as "MyStack.rev"

Note you can also create a custom file type and extenstion just for your app
if you want the user to doubleclick these files on the desktop.

Cheers

Monte
>
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