on startup and on shutdown

[Thomas J McGrath III]

Thanks, everyone, it seems to me the startup is what I wanted and the 
IDE does not process it 'in my stack' (which actually makes sense since 
it is a call only once message and REV already did that on it's 
startup).

I handled the startup not being loaded in the IDE by putting an if 
environment is "development" then do initialize in the preopenstack. 
This way I can leave the code in the app when built and it will switch 
to the startup instead.

I guess I misinterpreted the docs about the shutdown message. It sounds 
like it would be the best place to set a 'save' . I thought it was 
saying I could put variables into a custom prop and it would actually 
save it. What set me off was I was quitting in the IDE and it was 
saving my stack with the new data in the custom prop each time I tested 
it so in affect "I" was doing the saving and a build of course can not 
save itself with the new data.

Once again I  notice that I  put a lot of scripts into each handler 
that should be it's own function. This makes so much sense for reusing 
the script and yet I always seem to forget and end up with very long 
scripts.

THanks again,

TOm

On Jan 11, 2004, at 11:52 AM, Dom wrote:

> Thomas J McGrath III <3mcgrath at adelphia.net> wrote:
>
>> My problem with the preopenstack is that I have a lot of substacks 
>> that
>> I don't want to use what is in the preopenstack handler. That is why
>> the startup looks so good.
>
> In the substacks just put:
>
> on preopenstack
> end preopenstack
>
> to trap this command.
>
> As for "on startup", I was used to go with it in my HyperCard times, 
> but
> no more since then...
>
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