Standalone

[Marian Petrides]

A standalone application executes on its own when you double-click on 
it.

I've never used Dreamcard player, but I assume it is like Hypercard's 
player--when you double click on a Hypercard stack, the player opens 
and displays the stack--i.e. it is a way for a person who does not have 
Hypercard to be able to display a stack.  I assume Dreamcard Player 
works the same, but like I said, I've never used it.

Can anyone else help Arie on this point?

Marian




On Jan 8, 2005, at 2:34 PM, arie van der ent wrote:

> 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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