Revert Woes - Spoke too soon

[David Burgun]

Yes, done that now. The thing is that you don't need the "revert" 
command if you do it this way!

Thanks
Dave



>Dave, can you make your substack a mainstack? That way, you can revert just
>it if you want to...
>
>Just my 2 cents,
>
>Ken Ray
>Sons of Thunder Software
>Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
>Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>
>
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
>>  [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of
>>  David Burgun
>>  Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 9:02 AM
>>  To: How to use Revolution; Brian Yennie
>>  Subject: Revert Woes - Spoke too soon
>>
>>
>>  Hi All,
>>
>>  I spoke too soon. I tested the revert command in a test project,
>>  which had one main stack and one sub stack (the modal), in my real
>>  app, I have:
>>
>>  MainStack (Dummy, the window is hidden).
>>  Sub-Stack Top Level Windows - Modeless, usually called up from Menu
>>  or Tool Palette.
>>  Sub-Stack Utilitity Level Modal Dialogs, called from button handlers
>>  in Top Level Sub-Stacks.
>>
>>  If I issue a "revert" from the Utility level, it reverts back to the
>>  main stack, e.g. it reverts the Top Level Window too!
>>
>>  So, is there no way to just have the revert on the current stack, not
>>  the whole of the sub-stacks?
>>
>>  Thanks a lot
>>  Dave
>>
>>
>>  !!!!!!!!!!THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>>  I just don't know how I missed this command! I was actually trying to
>>  see how the IDE did it when you use the "Close and Remove from
>>  Memory" command - your email came thru just at the right time!
>>
>>  I just knew there was a "RunRev" oriented way of doing this! Now I
>>  have this in place, I can exploit the real Power Behind RunRev, I get
>>  more or less for free the ability to treat my data, GUI controls and
>>  code as one "unit". To a C/C++ programmer this is REAL POWER! Don't
>>  get me wrong you can do this in C/C++ BUT the amount of overhead in
>>  code and learning curve is huge! With RR it's already there! For
>>  Free! And it's Cross-Platform!!!!!
>>
>>  The "revert" command is the piece of the puzzle I was missing. In
>>  fact I should probably NOT do the
>>
>>  "save this stack" operation on the OK button? Since it will be saved
>>  when the main stack is saved, correct? The problem was I think, is
>>  that I was using positive logic, e.g. something gets saved if and
>>  only if you specifically save it (which is a "C" way of thinking) but
>>  actually the way that RunRev works is using (in my terms only, not a
>>  critisism, but rather a (good) feature), negative logic, e.g. it will
>>  be saved anyway, it's up to you to specially STOP it being saved!
>>  e.g. I was using the lack of a save command in the cancel handler to
>>  stop the data being updated, but of course it already had been
>>  updated and I needed to restore it! on cancel! Not, not save it!
>>
>>  On question though, if I place the revert command in a function that
>>  is located inside the main stack, will the revert command work on the
>>  main stack or the sub stack? I am going to try it anyway, but I'd
>>  like to know what is *supposed* to happen.
>>
>>  Thanks again!
>>
>>  All the Best
>>  Dave
>>
>>  >Diving into this one late, but I think the "revert" command is what
>>  >you are looking for.
>>  >
>>  >HTH,
>>  >Brian
>>  >
>>  >>I'll look at the stuff you suggested, but it seems like an awful
>>  >>lot of work compared to just reloading the sub-stack from disk if
>>  >>necessary. A simple command like "purgeStack" would surely do the
>>  >>trick?
>>  >
>>  >_______________________________________________
>>  >use-revolution mailing list
>>  >use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>>  >http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
>>
>>  _______________________________________________
>>  use-revolution mailing list
>>  use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>>  http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
>>  _______________________________________________
>>  use-revolution mailing list
>>  use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>>  http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
>  >
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>use-revolution mailing list
>use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution