Newbie Question

Dan Shafer revdan at danshafer.com
Thu Jul 14 15:17:49 EDT 2005


OK, point taken, Xavier.

You can't have a stack named "Home".

Seems kinda stupid since the stack doesn't have the name, but, what  
the heck.

Dan

On Jul 14, 2005, at 9:58 AM, MisterX wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> With all respect but if you type
>
>   the effective filename of stack home
>
> in the msg box you will get not false or an error
> but your license.rev stack (well hidden eh?)...
>
> MC also has one i think (substack of mchelp stack).
>
> If it's possible, more power to you cause that's how it was working in
> HyperCard (much better wasn't it?).
>
> Sounds like another conflict just waiting to happen at the most  
> innoportune
> moment if you trick this... Maybe the license stack is only checked at
> startup so then you might be home free... But since the license  
> stack is in
> the root folder of the rev installation in windows in the least  
> then it's
> very probable that some stack name conflict might happen!
>
> Just for your info... just in case...
> I dont know if allowing us to use "home" or whether the license  
> deal is a
> protection, nonetheless im dubiously dubitative on the possible
> implications!
>
> cheerios
> Xavier
> http://monsieurx.com
> More than just cool Moires
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
>> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of
>> Dan Shafer
>> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 17:30
>> To: How to use Revolution
>> Subject: Re: Newbie Question
>>
>> Hi, Hamburger1!
>>
>> Welcome to the Revolution.
>>
>> WHile there are lots of options for this in Rev (Xavier has
>> already pointed out two), as an old stackhead myself I think
>> the best way to do this is to create a stack (you can even
>> call it "Home" for all Rev
>> cares!) to store all of this reusable stuff in and then when
>> you have a stack where you want to use it, just use a command like:
>>
>> start using stack "Home"
>>
>> This creates what Rev calls a "library" stack. It is so
>> darned efficient and effective that once you get used to it
>> you'll wonder how you lived without it. I have several such
>> libraries that contain related groups of scripts.
>>
>> You'll also want to spend some time understanding the message
>> path in Rev, which is sufficiently different from HyperCard's
>> to cause some confusion in the early going. My book,
>> "Revolution: Software at th Speed of Thought", is available
>> through the RunRev store and has a good discussion of the
>> topic but may be a bit introductory level for someone with
>> serious HC experience. Richard Gaskin over at FourthWorld has
>> a great white paper on the message path and how you can
>> extend it with libraries, front and back scripts, etc. (URL:
>> http://www.fourthworld.com/embassy/articles/
>> revolution_message_path.html).
>>
>>
>> On Jul 14, 2005, at 4:55 AM, Hamburger1 at aol.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I'm in the process of switching from HyperCard. I put
>>>
>> several handlers
>>
>>> & functions in my home stack that are used in other stacks.
>>>
>> Where do I
>>
>>> put these scripts in Revolution?
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>>
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