App restart after update

[Trevor DeVore]

On Jun 18, 2008, at 12:44 AM, Bill Vlahos wrote:

> Most of the time I only update the stacks. What is the command to  
> unload the stacks? After I unload the stacks how do I reinitialize  
> the standalone stack?

I'm assuming you used the splash stack technique and you don't have to  
update any stacks that were used to build the standalone. If the  
stacks are not stack files then this won't work. If they are then  
proceed.

You can unload your application stacks using:

delete stack NAME_OF_MAINSTACK

This will remove the stack from memory. After removing the application  
stacks from memory just call whatever handler in the stack used to  
create the executable initializes and launches your application.  
Perhaps startup or preopenStack. That could should already take care  
of loading your application stacks into memory and launching the  
application.

There is also the 'revert' command which will reload the stack from  
disk. I haven't used this technique myself though.

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