openStack Initialization Issues

[Arthur Urban]

Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Arthur Urban wrote:
>> Is there a way I can detect when my main stack receives the openStack 
>> message versus when my substacks receives the message and pass it all 
>> the way down to the mainstack? I do once only initialization in my 
>> mainstack, and I can't seem to reliably detect when a substack is 
>> triggering the openStack message and skip over the init code. I've 
>> tried using the target and the me function, nothing seems to work. 
>> Too bad there is no openMainStack handler. (even using on startUp 
>> doesn't help me) Ugh...what am i missing? thanx!
>
> If you put your mainStack's initialization into the card script of 
> your mainStack you never need to worry about substacks triggering it.
That sure is mighty clever...I might even have to do that. I'm surprised 
that there is no "official" and "correct" way to deal with this, but 
perhaps as more folks see this thread, a non-workaround might arise. 
Thank you so much for the input! :)