Stack and Substacks... And I love Revolution 2!

[Fran=?ISO-8859-1?B?5w==?=ois Cuneo]

>> In Revolution, if I want to have in ONE application some different windows
>> (palette, modal window for dialogs b.e.) is it possble to have some
>> MainStack or is it better to work with substack?
> 
> Salut, François.
> 
> Two important points:
> 
> 1.  On Windows (& 'nixes, I believe), an application cannot modify
> itself.  So unless your application is static (ie: a presentation
> stack that does not change as a result of user interaction), any
> changeable information must be stored outside of the application
> itself or the app can only run on Mac OS.
> 
> So if data is stored in a stack, it must NOT be the main application
> stack NOR a substack thereof.  (Data can also be filed in an external
> file or database.)
> 
> 2.  Stack/substack nomenclature essentially just describes whether a
> stack is physically stored within another stack file or can have
> other stacks stored within it.  Set the mainstack property of any
> stack to itself and it is a mainstack; Set the mainstack property of
> any stack to another stack and it is now a substack of that stack.
> 
> A substack cannot itself contain substacks.
> 
> Hope this helps.
Rob, thank you for your answer but in fact, I don't understand one thing:
What is the equivalent of a Supercard project in  Revolution?
A mainstack with substacks or some main stacks in an application?
Thank you-
François

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