A place for stack libraries in My LiveCode?

[Dar Scott]

I guess I'm thinking both, Jacque.

I only recently noticed that there is a place in "My LiveCode" for externals.  There is a folder where the externals for the current IDE are kept.   There are folders used by the standalone builder for including externals in an app.  That seems to be the standard way of handling externals these days.  I'm trying to get with the program and convert my external schemes to that.  

However, for every external there are a dozen script libraries, such as stack libraries.  I was imagining that since there is some sort of scheme for managing plugins and externals, then surely there is one for script libraries.  (There might even be one for libraries in controls.)  I guess that is not the case.  

I'm starting to have second thoughts about letting LiveCode manage my externals, but to be compatible with others, I may still do that.  Nine times out of ten either my customer or I will put a library wrapper around an external, anyway.  That can be viewed the other way around: most of my externals are helpers for libraries.  

Dar





On May 16, 2012, at 8:19 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 5/16/12 6:46 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
>> Do you then include 'start using' and 'stop using' in your scripts?
>> Does that interfere with your plugin?  Or am I confused about what
>> the plugin does?
> 
> I got a little lost -- do you mean loading libraries into the IDE or building them into standalones?
> 
> I have a couple of libraries I load every time the IDE starts up, they're full of things I use during development. For that I make a plugin stack with the libraries in buttons. The plugin stack script has an openstack handler that inserts the scripts of the buttons into back and front as needed. I set LiveCode's plugin manager to open the stack invisibly every time the IDE starts up.
> 
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