Some Basic Misunderstandings/Problems with RunRev

[Marian Petrides]

David

I have a single card standalone stack that has my "title page" if you 
will:  Title of the app, a button to go to instructions, one for case 
menu and one for quit.

Clicking on instructions triggers a command to run instruction stack 
(not standalone), clicking on case menu button runs the main menu stack 
(also not a standalone), quit button quits.

Example of script for main menu button:

on mouseUp

Open stack "Main Menu.rev"

end mouseUp


Easy as pie.  The only standalone in this whole picture is title page 
stack. Everything else is non-standalone stack.

Hope this helps.

M

On Apr 14, 2004, at 2:37 PM, David Burgun wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>> You could have a two stack system: the app. stack and the interface 
>> stack.
>> If the user clicks on the app., it goes to the interface stack.
>> If the user clicks on the interface stack it "starts using" the app. 
>> stack.
>> No matter what the user does he/she ends up in the interface stack, 
>> which can
>> be changed and saved.
>> Paul Looney
>
> Ahhhh, this sounds more like what I want!
>
> But how do I set this up? At the moment I have a "Stack" that contains 
> all my GUI elements. From what you are saying I assume that's I'd need 
> a shell that forms the standalone, this could just display a Splash 
> Screen and then issue the "start using" command on the Main GUI.
>
> Question:
> Do I just locate the GUI stack in the same folder as the Standalone 
> and if so can I use the "Copy Files" panel of the "Standalone 
> Application Settings" to do this or do I have to move/copy it manually 
> each time?
>
> However they get there, I am assuming that I will have the following 
> files in the Standalone folder:
>
> StandaloneApp
> InitialGUI.rev
>
> So the user double clicks the Standalone which displays it's splash 
> screen and then checks for a file called "NewGUI.rev" (which won't 
> exist the first time) and if the file doesn't exist, copies the file 
> "InitialGUI.rev" into "NewGUI.rev".
>
> Either way, it then issues a "start using NewGUI.rev" command".
>
> The copy code is to allow the user to reset back to the factory 
> settings if need be, all that need be done is for the "NewGUI.rev" to 
> be moved or renamed or deleted and upon the next launch, the factory 
> defaults are back in place.
>
> More questions:
>
> Does the NewGUI.rev Stack I create have a main stack and sub-stacks as 
> normal?
>
> If not, how do I set it up?
>
> If so, when I issue a "save this stack" command does it save all 
> stacks and the mainStack?
>
> Thanks a lot for your time, this looks like the best approach for what 
> I want to do. I just want to be sure it can do what I want before I 
> start re-arranging my stack files again!
>
> All the Best
> Dave
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