Substack vs. Library Stack

[Scott Rossi]

Hi Bill:

When you "start using stack xyz..." you are using it as a library stack
:-)

See the docs under "start using" or the "library" command.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design




On 4/29/15, 1:37 PM, "William Prothero" <prothero at earthednet.org> wrote:

>Scott:
>I use substacks as code libraries in a large project. The substack
>handlers are callable (without specifying the substack name) from any
>other substack and also from the main stack. It is like having a giant
>stack script. Of course, you have to ³Start using mySubstack² to make the
>code available. You can also remove the substack and use it elsewhere and
>attach it to another main stack by setting its mainStack property. e.g.
>set the mainStack of this stack to ³myMainStack².
>
>I find it very convenient. But, as I get more familiar with Livecode,
>I¹ll like the libraries approach.
>
>Best,
>Bill
>
>
>> On Apr 29, 2015, at 12:31 PM, Phil Davis <revdev at pdslabs.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Another thing about libraries: they can have substacks if needed. Of
>>course, substacks can't.
>> 
>> Phil Davis
>> 
>> 
>> On 4/29/15 10:36 AM, Scott Rossi wrote:
>>> I imagine you'll get a lot of responses to this, but one reason to use
>>>a
>>> library is its code is available to all open stacks in LC: functions,
>>> commands, etc.  Sort of like having a backscript for all open stacks,
>>> instead of just one.  A substack doesn't do this.
>>> 
>>> Another frame of reference that might help is the difference between
>>> behaviors and libraries: code in behaviors is object-specific,
>>>available
>>> only to those objects that have the behavior assigned to them, while
>>>code
>>> in libraries is universal, available to all objects anywhere, and
>>>doesn't
>>> require any assignment.
>>> 
>>> Other people will probably chime in with additional insights.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Scott Rossi
>>> Creative Director
>>> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 4/29/15, 9:56 AM, "Mike Kerner" <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I have not read a straight answer on this, yet.
>>>> 
>>>> Library stacks vs. substacks why use one vs. the other?  I don't see
>>>>any
>>>> clear advantage to Libraries, per se, even for...libraries.
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
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>> 
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