Stackrunner

[Richmond]

On 11/17/2010 09:24 PM, Devin Asay wrote:
> On Nov 17, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
>
>> Thanks.  It will be a huge amount of work for me to change icon
>> numbers everywhere so I guess Stackrunner won't work for me.  Oh well!
> Pete,
>
> You could include the Image Library stack with your stack and start using it when it's opened by Stack Runner.
>
> Devin
>
RR/LC is infinitely flexible, and Devin's suggestion should remind us 
all that RR/LC is itself
implemented in RR/LC (even if, frankly, that is rather difficult to 
conceptualise), and as such,
most componets of the IDE can be moved, as substacks, to one's own 
stacks, and then sent
off with StackRunner, or the Metacard IDE (that does NOT contain lots of 
components that
are present in the RR/LC setup), to do whatever one wants.

In fact, one of the first things I did, in 2001 when I "discovered" RR, 
was start unpacking the thing
as a way to understanding how it worked.

If one is not entirely happy with the RR/LC GUI one can use components 
from it to build an
individualised GUI, either on the RR/LC GUI, or by hacking the MC GUI. 
While this rarely
results in anythibg particularly better, it does prove an instructive 
exercise rather in the
same sort of way as one unpacks a series of nested Russian dolls.