How to get path of main stack from external ?

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed May 11 11:24:37 EDT 2005


Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:
> On 5/11/05 6:07 PM, "Richard Gaskin" <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:
>>
>>>And can somebody point me the correct Transcript command to get path of main
>>>stack ?
>>
>>It's the filename property:
>>
>>   get the filename of stack MyMainStack
>>
>>If you ever need to get the filename of a stack and you don't know if
>>it's a mainstack or a substack just add the "effective" keyword:
>>
>>   get the effective fileName of stack MySubStack
> 
> 
> But external cannot know name of particular stack...

Why not?

Externals have callbacks, so I can't imagine why they wouldn't be able 
to do something like:

    get the short name of this stack

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  Richard Gaskin
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