User Extensions/Externals

[J. Landman Gay]

Graham & Heather Harrison wrote:
> Jacque wrote:
> 
>> It works the simple way for me. I just dropped the external into
>> that folder, restarted Rev, made a new stack, and made a call to
>> the external from the stack script. Worked okay.
> 
> All aboard the Merry-go-round!
> 
> That looks like the place I came in. This still does not work for me.
> If it did I would gladly accept it as my modus operandi.
> 
> Would you please tell me your configuration - rev and Mac OS X.
> Unless it exactly the same as mine, I think this has to go to QCC.

I don't think the configuration matters, but I just (re)tried it on both 
Leopard and Snow Leopard, on an iMac and a MacBook Pro. It works fine. 
The Snow Leopard MacBook had never seen the external before so it was a 
clean install. I dropped ssMacWindows.bundle into the Externals folder 
at Documents/My Revolution Enterprise/Externals/ and then launched Rev. 
I made a new stack with this script in the card:

on mouseUp
  put ssMacWindowsInformation()
end mouseUp

When I click on the card, I get the info in the message box. The same 
method worked on my iMac running Leopard and Rev 4.0.

> 
> Another thought: what is the External References in the stack
> Property Inspector. Haven't been able to find anything in the
> guide.

That's the shortcut way to assign externals to a particular stack. It 
does the same thing as the line of script that Mark Weider mentioned; it 
just sets the externals property of your stack to the hard-coded file 
path you choose.

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