Standalone opens stack and then quits

Bill Vlahos bvlahos at mac.com
Wed Oct 13 01:32:58 EDT 2004


I should have said that this is with Mac OS X (10.3.5) Revolution 2.5 
both current with updates.

Bill

On Oct 12, 2004, at 10:30 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote:

> I have a standalone which is built primarily to be the engine so it 
> can open a stack which can save its data. If I build a standalone with 
> the following in the stack script it works fine as long as the 
> "stack.rev" file is at the same level as the standalone:
>
> on OpenStack
>   open stack "stack.rev"
> end OpenStack
>
> However, what I want to do is have the standalone give me the ability 
> to select which stack(s) I want it to open. It does, in fact, open it, 
> but then it immediately quits taking both the standalone and the stack 
> down. I can't figure out why it is quitting. There is no quit stack 
> command and it does correctly open the stack I select.
>
> Stack Script:
> on OpenStack
>   set the defaultFolder to "DataFolder" -- data folder at same level 
> of standalone
>   put the files into field "fListFiles" -- puts a list of files in a 
> list field
> end OpenStack
>
> Button Script:
> on mouseUp
>   put the hilitedLines of fld "fListFiles" into tList -- the selected 
> line(s) in the field
>   repeat with x = 1 to the number of items in tList
>     put (line (item x of tList) of field "fListFiles") into tpath
>     open stack tPath
>   end repeat
> end mouseUp
>
> This is driving me crazy. It actually opens the file I want (I can see 
> it flash) but then quits.
>
> Why and how do I make it stop?
>
> Bill Vlahos
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