Can a substack icon in a standalone be rendered invisible?

[J. Landman Gay]

Stgoldberg at aol.com wrote:
> Once again I'd like to approach the great minds on the Revolution forum.   
> Hopefully, someone can offer a suggestion for the following issue:
> 
> I used   Revolution in Mac OS X to create   a standalone in which I'd like 
> the user to be able to save data.   Since standalone's do not normally save 
> data, I included a substack and checked off the "Move substacks into individual 
> stackfiles" checkbox in the File Standalone settings.   This works fine, except 
> that the standalones for Windows and for Mac OS 9 show the substack on the 
> hard drive.   (The standalone for OS X is no problem since it is built as a 
> single icon)   I'm concerned that the presence of two icons on Windows and OS 9 may 
> confuse the user, since it may not be obvious which icon to click on, the 
> mainstack icon or the substack icon.
> 
> Is there a way in which the substack icon can be made invisible in both the 
> Windows and OS 9 versions?   I tried putting the substack in a separate folder 
> by checking off the "Create folder for stackfiles" option in the Standalone 
> Application Settings, to get the substack out of view.   Also, I renamed the 
> substack to something utterly boring that would not induce the reader to click on 
> it.   (I tried checking off the "Rename stackfiles generically" option but 
> this caused an error message in trying to save as a standalone).   It would be 
> nice if the substack icon could just be invisible.   Is this possible?   

Not automatically, I don't think, but after the build it is pretty easy 
to just change the visibility manually. In Windows you can do it in the 
stack's Properties setttings. On OS 9 you'll need something like ResEdit 
or another utility to do it.

You'd have to use an installer, or else stress that the user should copy 
the entire folder over to the hard drive. Otherwise the invisible files 
wouldn't get copied.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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