Self adjusting code?

[David Burgun]

Hi,

If you (or anyone else) needs help on this, I have just setup just 
such a project. There are a few "gotchas" it's good to know about 
before you start designing/coding.

Let me know
All the Best
Dave

>Randall,
>
>Welcome to this list and to Revolution.
>
>What I think you are referring to is that Revolution "standalones" 
>cannot be modified. The is a restriction that the Mac OS does not 
>have but other OSs do so Revolution imposes this restriction on all 
>platforms. The standalones are the executables.
>
>Fortunately, this is easily worked around. All you have to do is 
>create a standalone which opens your stack. The stack is completely 
>modifiable just like HyperCard and SuperCard by issuing save 
>commands. This works the same on all platforms and the stacks 
>themselves are completely portable across all platforms.
>
>You can do what you suggest in your original email but it doesn't 
>need to be that complicated.
>
>Bill Vlahos
>
>On May 4, 2004, at 8:24 PM, Randall Reetz wrote:
>
>>My first post to this list...
>>
>>I am a SuperCard user (for 14 years).  I am of course interested in 
>>Revolution's multi-platform output.  However... in reading some of 
>>your tutorials, I came across a blurb outlining a restriction on 
>>making run-time changes to Revolution projects (stacks).  I am 
>>interested in evolving code... projects that react to, optimize and 
>>adjust to their environment... who uses them and their intent, and 
>>available media, data and communications streams.  How does one do 
>>this with Revolution?  I can imagine a solution involving two 
>>concurrent projects... one running... the other treated as data 
>>file... adjusted by the first... then, periodically, the first 
>>duplicates the second (now there are three), launches the second 
>>which once launched, quits and deletes the first, then, gets down 
>>to the business of writing changes to it's inactive clone.  Wow, 
>>that seems complex... but I can't quite imagine how else to do 
>>run-time self-adjusting code.  How have you people solved this 
>>problem.
>>
>>
>>Randall Reetz
>>
>>randall at thinkthink.com
>>
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