"set the externals" question

[Jim Bufalini]

Hi Richard,

Have one stack that sets the externals. Then *start using* that stack from
anywhere (the preOpenStack of your standalone is fine). This makes available
the externals of that stack to other open stacks.

Aloha from Hawaii,

Jim Bufalini

> I have a standalone, which opens several other stacks. Is there a way
> to
> have any of these other stacks access an external WITHOUT having to
> "set
> the externals" of the standalone?
> 
> It's much easier for me if I need only modify one of the stacks. I'd
> like to avoid modifying the standalone.
> 
> I've tried:
> 
> 1. using the "set the externals" command in the preopenstack handler in
> one of the stacks (i.e. not the standalone app), but this didn't work
> during runtime;
> 
> 2. setting the externals of one of the stacks in the development
> environment (so I can see that the external is being referenced in the
> stack property inspector). This didn't work during runtime.
> 
> I'm testing this under Windows, but any solution would need to work on
> a
> Mac as well. It's the videograbber.dll (in the Rev Externals folder)
> that I'm trying to access during runtime.
> 
> Thanks.
> Richard Miller
> 
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