Windows standalone two handlers separated

[Klaus Major]

Hi Andrew,

> Thanks, Klaus, for getting back to me about my Windows standalone 
> issue.
>
> Making a standalone that works in Windows has been such a problem for 
> me!  I can't believe there's not more uproar about this.  Stuff just 
> doesn't work like it's supposed to and often the symptoms don't help 
> you pinpoint the cause.
>
> Anyway, I implemented your idea. Specifically I wrote
> send "parttwo" to btn "instructions" of cd 1 of this stack
>
>  Is this okay?  (Because I couldn't figure out the name of my stack, 
> stupid as that my sound.  When I typed "answer the stack name" and 
> such things, I just got errors.)

Sure "this stack" does work, if the script being executed is in THIS 
STACK, as you experienced :-)

> Anyway, the problem still persists with my standalone.  But perhaps it 
> was a different problem to begin with.  The weird thing is, before I 
> implemented this change it seemed like the standalone was only reading 
> the first portion of my script, not the second (like I described 
> before).  WITH this change, it's not working at all.

Damn!

> I don't see why a parameter is preferable over a global variable,

It isn't, actually :-)
Just wanted to show you an alternative...

> but I implemented that suggestion anyway.  It worked fine in the 
> development environment, but again no nothing on the windows 
> standalone.  Perhaps there is some other error going on, but I can't 
> figure it out at all.
>
> Again, the symptom is that the Windows standalone won't put text in 
> the card field like its supposed to, but I suspect that might be 
> symptomatic of something unrelated since that's been the case with 
> other Windows standalone problems that I've had.
>
> Sorry for the pestering.

No pestering at all, this is a list to help others out, if possible!!!!

> I really appreciate your help!

Can you post some code that does not work in the standalone?

I can even offer you to take a look here (offlist) and try to build a 
standalone from your stack,
if you don't mind...

> Andrew

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de