Standalone

[arie van der ent]

Marian,

I used your recipe. It works. A question: what the heck is the 
difference between compiling a standalone and adding Dreamcard-player 
to your stack(s)?

Arie van der Ent

Op 8-jan-05 om 19:15 heeft Marian Petrides het volgende geschreven:

> Arie
>
> Ok. I finally got a chance to actually try this out and can confirm my 
> original statement, namely that having a group which is set to 
> background = true does not interfere with creating a standalone.  I'm 
> not sure what the problem with your stack is, but it isn't the 
> background group.
>
> Here's what I did, in case you want to try it out yourself:
>
> Created new mainstack
>
> On first card, added 2 buttons and a field, grouped them and set 
> behave as background to true (using object inspector on the group and 
> checking the use as background check box).
>
> Created 2 new cards.  The group, as expected, showed up on both cards.
>
> I then chose Save As Standalone from the file menu.
>
> The resulting standalone executes just fine in Mac OSX.  HTH.
>
> Marian
> On Jan 8, 2005, at 7:04 AM, Marian Petrides wrote:
>
>> Arie
>>
>> I don't think the behavior you describe is the way it should work 
>> (i.e. grouping a  bunch of buttons, setting them to behave like 
>> background = true and then trying to make a standalone should work in 
>> my recollection.  Alas, I don't have time to create a simple test 
>> stack to verify this right now. Anyone else?
>>
>> However, the reason I am writing now is that I have a viable solution 
>> for you, one I know works because I use it all the time and have used 
>> it to create a very large interactive casebook.
>>
>> But what I do, that I KNOW works, is:
>>
>> Create splash stack (a hub of sorts) containing a single "title page" 
>> card and make into standalone.  This splash stack has buttons on it 
>> that take you to appropriate cards in one or more OTHER stacks which 
>> are NOT standalone.
>>
>> For example:  Splash stack has 3 buttons:
>>
>> Button 1;  Instructions.  Goes to Instructions Stack (not standalone)
>> Button 2:  Cases.    Goes to Cases Stack (not standalone)
>> Button 3: Quit.   Simply quits.
>>
>> In reality, if your stacks are small enough you could even combine 
>> the two stacks into a simple "Cases" stack. Then have Button 1 go to 
>> cd 1 of stack "Cases"  and, assuming your instructions are all on one 
>> card, have  Button 2 go to cd 2 of stack "Cases"
>>
>> HTH.
>>
>> Marian
>>
>>
>> On Jan 8, 2005, at 5:32 AM, arie van der ent wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am new to Revolution. I understand the concept of building a 
>>> standalone. So I made a splash screen as mainstack and put the the 
>>> logic in a substack. Building a standalone causes an error. I have 
>>> tried to track what causes the error. One of the things I found is 
>>> that when I am grouping the elements on a card and set the property 
>>> 'behave like a background' to true, it is not possible to a build a 
>>> standalone. This can't be true, I think. Is there a solution?
>>>
>>> Arie van der Ent
>>>
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