Standalone UI's, data stacks, image files

[Björnke von Gierke]

There is an option in the distribution builder to make all substacks  
into separate files.
One can put preferences into a textfile with the various text handling  
capabilities.

There are many ressources on that topic online available :
the first tip of the week:
http://runrev.com/revolution/developers/articles/tipoftheweek/1.html
the runrev mailing archive (must search):
http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/
sons of thunder tips:
http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/metacard/tips/stk001.htm
rev newby board:
http://www.mailping.net/cgi-bin/yabb/ 
YaBB.cgi?board=questions;action=display;num=1037506133

also there are some topics within the documentation about this:
About... main stacks, substacks, and the organization of a stack file.
Why... can't I save a Stack?
Why... aren't window positions saved in my application?
mainStack
save

The reason why this doesn't get answered anymore is probably that so  
many people do not search, but first ask for information (and do not  
ask again, because they found their answers trough searching). Coupled  
with the fact that this Question comes back again and again, this leads  
to a certain fatigue of these in knowledge (at least that is my  
theory)...


have fun
Björnke von Gierke

On Sonntag, Mär 16, 2003, at 23:19 Europe/Zurich, Ken Norris wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> Note: I didn't get any response so I'll repost (same with the last  
> time I
> tried to find answers about this problem). BTW, it seems that others  
> who
> have questions on these types of subjects don't get answers either. The
> problems with external file referencing, data stacks, images, etc.,  
> with
> respect to manipulation of stack content seems to get very little  
> response.
> I've been fighting with how to deal with this for weeks. At this point  
> I'll
> take any advice, from sage absolutism to wild guesses ;+) I'm going to
> rewrite what I want to do:
>
> 1) Use a standalone as a UI with external data stacks, image resource,  
> and
> sound resource files.
>
> 2) Be able to load the standalone UI with images and sounds into  
> background
> groups from available files, via a Preferences stack where the current  
> file
> names are stored.
>
> 3) Be able to switch the bg group images and sound prefs from the
> Preferences stack and have them immediately changed in the standalone  
> UI
> (and automatically saved to the Prefs stack).
>
> 4) Be able to either:
>
> a) Load a data stack into the standalone UI somehow, and be able to  
> search,
> manipulate, and update any of the card info, then save it back to the  
> data
> stack in updated condition (with an option for backup copies).
>
> or..
>
> b) Search, manipiulate, and update the data stack by _remote control_  
> (the
> hard part) from the standalone UI, and save the altered data stack  
> normally.
>
> How do I do it?
>
> TIA,
> Ken N.
>
>
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