"set the externals" question

Richard Miller wow at together.net
Thu May 7 20:38:43 EDT 2009


Jim, Thierry:

I did my additional testing with this. For whatever reason, the process 
works fine on XP but not Vista. Identical code on both units. One works; 
one doesn't. Any thoughts?

I have a standalone... that opens an initial stack... which in turn 
opens an invisible substack (which remains open). In that substack, the 
preopenstack handler uses "set the externals of this stack to 
revvideograbber.dll". The initial stack (not the standalone... which is 
only the startup engine for this program) contains the main navigation 
menu. The user then navigates from this initial stack to the video 
recording stack, which when it first opens, has a preopenstack handler 
containing "start using" (the invisible stack).

Thanks.
Richard


Richard Miller wrote:
> Thanks Jim and Thierry,
>
> Seems to be working. I've got a bit more testing to do, but so far, so 
> good.
>
> Richard
>
>
> Jim Bufalini wrote:
>> 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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