A maybe not so stupid question

[Richard Gaskin]

Romain Lafourcade wrote:

>> But in the meantime, have you considered making only your Browser app into a
>> standalone, and having your Builder app be a separate stack that runs with
>> the same engine?  I would imagine that most folks using your Builder would
>> want the Browser also, yes?
> 
> Yes, I thought about that. Actually I've started out with this solution in
> mind but it became clear to me that it would look a lot more professional
> (at least from the user's point of view) to have these two separate apps and
> to keep that distinction between the "Builder" and the "Browser".

A lot of apps provide different modes for different tasks.  For example for
Dreamweaver and GoLive offer a Layout mode and a Preview mode.

Using an external a Builder stackfile module to deterine the program's
building capabilities need not necessarily appear "unprofessional".  That
same basic architecture drives GoLive: many of its modes are in separate
module files, which can be added to a folder to enhance capabilities.

There can be benefits to this approach:  if one is Building they may want to
test by Browsing, and you can better integrate the two as modules in a
single app than trying to rig some latform-independent mechanism for having
the two apps talk to one another.   Also, the user saves a lot of memory and
time switching between Building and Browsing.

Just how ideal this approach is for your app of course depends on the
specifics of your app and its workflow.  There can be potential tradeoffs
with either approach.

> A big issue I still have to cope with is the revCopyFile command that I
> simply can't make to work. Since my users are supposed to move images from
> one point of their hard drive to another this command was interesting
> because of its ability to move files WITHOUT reading it.
> 
> It seems that I'll use the put URL ... into URL ... form or import all these
> images within the "Book" stack but this solution may create quite big
> files...

What is the relationship between copying files and displaying external image
files in your app?

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