Substack problem .... !

[Jim Ault]

On 2/15/06 5:24 AM, "Francis Nugent Dixon" <effendi at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> So, without knowing what I was doing, I played around (dangerous !) with
> my stack which contained 3 substacks, and by some miracle (don't ask me
> how !), I isolated one of the substacks. It is now sitting as an
> independant file
> in my folder. Only problem was that my Mainstack now only has two of the
> substacks, the Help substack having now been "removed".

Not sure of the details of your divorce, but marrying the independent stack
(which is now a main stack) is a matter of:

First, make a copy of the independent stack. (I will call it "U2")
Open stack "U2"
Open the Main Stack you wish to marry (call it "Maine")
Selecting  stack "U2"
..going to the Stack Inspector and using the drop down to select "Maine"

This sets the Main Stack property of "U2" to "Maine".  You're done.

However, "U2" should still function as a main stack unless there are
handlers in "Maine" that are required.

Hope this helps

Jim Ault
Las Vegas


On 2/15/06 5:24 AM, "Francis Nugent Dixon" <effendi at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Just arrived on the forum - so Hi to all members !
> 
> OK - So I made the plunge to DreamCard after 15 years (and Oh so
> many stacks !) of Hypercard.
> 
> The only problem I have (at the moment) is the MainStack/Substack
> concept. I spent a whole day trawling previous posts to find an answer,
> and fell asleep on my keyboard - you guys obviously know a lot ! But I
> didn't find a solution I could understand.
> 
> I wanted to put a help function in many of my stacks, so in my first
> Mainstack
> I decided to create a substack, containing xx cards of Help which I
> call from
> various buttons in my Mainstack - simple "go to card xx of stack Help".
> It worked fine !
> 
> I then decided to merge a copy of this Substack into other Mainstacks,
> with
> the idea of modifying  the card contents for specific help information.
> 
> So, without knowing what I was doing, I played around (dangerous !) with
> my stack which contained 3 substacks, and by some miracle (don't ask me
> how !), I isolated one of the substacks. It is now sitting as an
> independant file
> in my folder. Only problem was that my Mainstack now only has two of the
> substacks, the Help substack having now been "removed".
> 
> This independant HELP substack is UNTOUCHABLE - can't display anything,
> (double-click on the window in the "Pointer Tool" mode) has no effect.
> I obviously can recreate the substack, and write all the Help cards
> again, but
> I want to find out WHY and HOW.
> 
> What did I do wrong - or more correctly how do I recover ? Or do I just
> call
> it part of the "learning curve", and create my Help substack again ?
> 
> Then, how do I copy it into all of my other Mainstacks ?
> 
> Best from Paris
> 
> Francis
> 
> 
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