Setting paths to Externals

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Sat Nov 24 13:16:39 EST 2007


On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:38:52 -0600, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Sivakatirswami wrote:
> 
>> b) I tried everything "under the sun" to load an external by script. 
>> but I'm doing something wrong
> 
> You can only load externals in a startup handler; it is the only time 
> during a launch that the engine can do it. Move your loadExternals to 
> a startup handler and you should be good to go.

Actually, it turns out you can also load externals from a stack that is 
put into use with 'start using' (see my previous post and 
http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/ext003.htm).

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/



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