Creating Library Modules

[Dave]

Hi,

I think your problem is that you are not loading the library stack  
correctly. The best way to do this is to use a full path name to  
the .rev file, as in: <FULLPATH>StandardReports.rev. You can grab the  
full path of the currently running stack like so:

put the filename of this stack into myStackFilePathName
set the itemDelimiter to "/"
put "StandardReports.rev" into item -1 of myStackFilePathName

start using myStackFilePathName

Put this in the preOpenStack handler in card 1 of your main stack.

Hope this helps
Dave


On 10 Jul 2008, at 05:46, dcpbarrington wrote:

>
> I have created the StandardRepor.rev as an independent stack and  
> the Main
> stack starts the independent stack by doing the following:
>
>   if "StandardReports" is not among the lines of the StacksInUse then
>     start using stack "StandardReports"
>   end if
>
> What I want to be able to do is be able to supply different sets of  
> reports
> like a set of libraries.  The main program selects either  
> StandardReports OR
> CustomReports1 OR CustomReports2 and the main stack starts a specific
> library based on the configuration.  Each of the Stacks would have  
> the same
> report functions, but depending on what stack is started, the user  
> can get
> different report formats for the same set of information.
>
> SO an independent stack library can be called by the main stack,  
> but the
> code must be independent and does not have access to any of the  
> functions or
> commands in the stack that started it.  Can variables be passed  
> between the
> functions and data returned by the function?
>
> How do I get the independent stack to start using the Main stack?   
> The main
> stack is already in memory.
>
>
> Sarah Reichelt-2 wrote:
>>
>>
>> Is the StandardReport stack a sub-stack of the Main Stack or is it a
>> separate file?
>> If it is a sub-stack, then it automatically gets access to all the
>> handlers in the Main Stack, but if it is a separate file, they are
>> independent. You would then have to "start using" the Main Stack as
>> well, if you wanted StandardReport to be able to use it's handlers.
>>
>> The "StandardReport.rev" file can be placed anywhere you like, but if
>> you want MainStack to be able to refer to it automatically, then se
>> the Main Stacks stackFiles property to include a reference to
>> "StandardReport.rev".
>>
>> HTH,
>> Sarah
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