Making handlers always available on startup

[Graham Samuel]

On  Fri, 16 Jan 2004 20:51:18 -0800 (PST), erik hansen 
<erikhans08 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>--- "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
>wrote:
>
>>  use the Plugins feature. To do that,
>>  create a stack and put all
>>  your custom handlers into the stack script.
>>  Include a preOpenStack (or
>>  an openStack) handler on the first card that
>>  puts the stack in use. Save
>>  the stack into Revolution's Plugins folder.
>>  Then restart Revolution and
>>  choose your plugin stack from the
>>  Development->Plugins->Settings menu.
>>  Set your stack to load every time Rev starts
>>  up.
>>
>>  The next time you launch Rev, it will
>>  automatically open your plugin
>>  stack. The plugin stack's preOpenStack handler
>>  will put it in use. This
>>  effectively creates a library that will be
>>  accessible all the time, just
>>  as HC's home stack script was.
>
>thanks Jacquie, very succinct.
>are there any caveats about saving plugins
>as you alter them?

I'm also interested in this technique but I haven't tried to use it 
yet - however it looks from the above as if it only works in the IDE 
rather than in a standalone, or do I misunderstand this? I guess this 
is not the way forward if I want to have a library which is 
accessible to the mainstack and other stacks further down the 
hierarchy in a standalone: instead I guess I need to employ the 
'start using' construct as described in Richard G's recent paper, but 
that leaves me slightly puzzled as to whether the library stack(s) 
can be in a separate file from the mainstack and substacks of my 
actual application.

I guess this has been discussed many times before, but I am still 
vague on this last point. I guess that since there is only one copy 
of the engine running at any time, then the engine 'knows' about all 
.rev files which have been loaded whether they are part of a 
mainstack-substack cluster or are just freestanding - is this right?

Slightly muddled

Graham
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