Idle handlers and Text files

[Len Morgan]

I probably did confuse the "startup" message with preOpenStack however, 
I put a simple debug message in my preOpenStack handler (which is the 
STACK script) and it doesn't ever fire (when running in the IDE).

The last line of your response brings up a question though: Why would 
you put a preOpenStack message in the first card instead of the stack 
script?  This seems counterintuitive to me.

For what it's worth, I am NOT starting up my stack by double clicking on 
it.  I start up the Rev IDE first (w/ GLX2) and then use File->Open 
Stack to pick my stack.

Len Morgan


Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Len Morgan wrote:
> > Along the lines of this discussion, I think someone mentioned that the
> > preOpenStack message is NOT sent when you are using the IDE.  Is this
> > true?
>
> I don't believe so; AFAIK the IDE does not prevent your stack from 
> getting preOpenStack messages.  Perhaps you were thinking of startup?
>
> > If so, where can I put start-up code so that I set things up
> > before an app gets going in both the IDE and a stand-alone?
>
> I do initialization from a preOpenStack handler in the card script of 
> the first card of the stack file which will be made into a standalone.
>