Revlet - how to get back to the main stack from a substack?

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

I've had success moving between several stacks, main and sub just using the "push card" and "pop card" commands at appropriate times. Doesn't matter what the IDs or names are. Try it; you'll like it.

Joe Lewis Wilkins
Architect & Director of Product Development for GSI
<www.glsysinc.com>








On Mar 23, 2011, at 7:14 AM, Keith Clarke wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> Thanks for the response and suggestions. 
> 
> According to the documentation, windowID generated by the underlying OS, applied to each new application window opened. So, opening a substack using 'go stack "<target substack name>" in the window of this stack' is the equivalent of opening a new web page in the same browser window - the windowID should stay the same.
> 
> To prove this logic, in the IDE on OSX, if I type 'answer the windowid of current stack' into the message box whilst focused on the main stack, I get a 9-digit number returned. If I then navigate to the substack using the '...in this window' statement and repeat the message box command, I get the same number. So, OSX has retained the windowID for the substack.
> 
> Once deployed to the revlet, the underlying OS sees only a single window, so outside the rev browser plugin, nothing changes. Meanwhile, within the revlet, I can move from main-stack to substacks and between substacks using this same command. So it should be possible to navigate back to the main stack in the same (or a similar) way.
> 
> So unless there is some undocumented secret syntax somewhere, this looks like a bug with the LiveCode browser plugin.
> Best,
> Keith..
> 
> On 23 Mar 2011, at 12:52, Mark Schonewille wrote:
> 
>> Hi Keith,
>> 
>> I don't know whether the ownership of the window actually changes, when you go to the substack. What happens if you try
>> 
>> go stack "Name of mainstack" in the window of stack "Name of mainstack"
>> 
>> (This might be completely wrong, but if everything else fails, just give it a try).
>> 
>> You'd have to read the docs for this, but perhaps it is also possible to store the window ID in a variable and use that to refer to the window, instead of "the window of me".