Standalone Build Problem

[Scott Rossi]

Bob:

Follow Devin's advice.  Building a launcher (splash) app shouldn't be that complicated.  The standalone just needs to be a simple minimal stack that launches your "real" main stack containing all your logic, sub stacks, etc.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media UX/UI Design

> On Jun 2, 2015, at 9:35 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com> wrote:
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> Thanks Devin.
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> With this approach I am finding that letting Livecode automatically find the libraries it needs is not successful. First, none of my data grids work, even though I have added a data grid to the splash stack. Second, none of the image files I have referenced in the primary stack are being accessed. I suppose I will need to manually add those as well to the application folder.
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> I will, at the risk of sounding like I am whining, repeat the sentiment others have expressed, that this is more difficult to get working than it ought to be.
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> Bob S
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> On Jun 2, 2015, at 09:21 , Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu<mailto:devin_asay at byu.edu>> wrote:
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> On Jun 2, 2015, at 10:09 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com<mailto:bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com>> wrote:
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> Hi all.
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> So I am creating a standalone for the first time, and I am trying to use a splash stack. Taking the advice of others I have added a data grid to the splash stack so that the data grid library get added. Now when I attempt to set the mainstack of the actual stack that contains all the business logic, it fails. I think I might know why, but I’ll ask to be sure.
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> The actual application stack has a number of substacks already. I am thinking that a substack cannot itself contain other substacks. If this is true, I will have to break out all of my other stacks as single files, then add them as substacks to the mainstack.
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> If this is true, I can see why new users have problems creating standalones at first. It is a rather convoluted way of going about things. If not, then I am at a loss to know why I cannot set the mainstack property of a given stack.