Alt-things re-uploaded, more

[J. Landman Gay]

Peter Alcibiades wrote:
> And another thing was, open a stack, then set the externals of the stack to 
> one of them using the properties popup.  This was sqlite.  Again, no effect 
> that I can see.  Maybe if there is a user guide someplace on the commands it 
> would be possible to try sending a few commands to the external from that 
> stack?  Is there one anywhere?

The externals don't necessarily have to be installed in the "preferred" 
IDE locations. The advantage to doing that is so that the IDE will load 
them on startup, but you can actually put them anywhere you want.

The generic instructions for working with externals:

1. Open the stack that will use the external. Set its externals property 
to the relative path of the external file on disk:

   set the externals of this stack to "/path/to/external/file"

2. Save the stack. Close the stack and remove it from memory. This is 
the important step.

3. Reopen the stack. If your path is correct, the external will load. 
Now you can use it in scripts.


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