Making "Real Stack" invisible

Terry Judd tsj at unimelb.edu.au
Mon Sep 22 03:54:29 EDT 2008


You can always store the 'invisible' stack in a location that isn't obvious
to the user (check out the specialFolderPath function) having either cloned
and saved an existing substack or written out and saved a stack that you
have stored in a custom property.

Terry...


On 22/9/08 5:05 PM, "Joe Lewis Wilkins" <pepetoo at cox.net> wrote:

> Thanks, Terry,
> 
> Yeah, I wanted it to be invisible to the user, and I forgot about the
> period thing, but that probably doesn't work on PCs anyway. And it
> changes the name of the file, so I doubt it would work. Hmn! I wonder,
> if the user doesn't have Revolution would clicking on the "real stack"
> open from the Splash standalone anyway; seems that's what Jacque said
> at one point.
> 
> Joe Wilkins
> 
> On Sep 21, 2008, at 11:31 PM, Terry Judd wrote:
> 
>> Hi Joe - do you mean that the file is invisible to the user and the
>> stack is
>> visible or vice versa?
>> 
>> If it's the former then the filename should begin with a period (.)
>> If it's the latter then just use...
>> 
>> open inv stack "myStack"
>> 
>> HTH,
>> Terry...
> 
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