How to get path of main stack from external ?

[MisterX]

This could help! 

<http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=hypercard&btnG=Search&doma
ins=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mactech.com&sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mactech.com>

http://www.mactech.com
 
MacTech has had quite a few articles on hypercard... 
T'was my favorite magazine in college ;)

gonna have a fun time reading this on lulls at work :)
Found an article to write forth externals which could help for
the Python external kit too ;)

but are these too outdated?

cheers
Xav
http://monsieurx.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Richard Gaskin
> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 17:25
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: How to get path of main stack from external ?
> 
> 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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