Standalone Build Problem

[J. Landman Gay]

On 6/2/2015 11:30 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
> I can see now why people strongly advise NOT to use the substacks
> feature. It is none too compatible with standalone building.

The option for this in standalone settings moves existing substacks out 
of the mainstack and into individual files on disk. This creates the 
same structure as the splash stack you are currently trying to make 
manually. It works fine, the warning you may be remembering is to advise 
people that the final structure will change a bit, and their code may 
need to accomodate that.

A splash stack is just a shell containing the LC engine. It typically 
contains nothing but a single card with a splash/startup image (thus the 
name) and has almost no working code at all except the handler that 
opens the "real" stack. It opens the working mainstack as a document 
rather than as an app so that you can save the changes and they will 
stick, which an app can't do. You can think of a splash stack as nothing 
but the LC engine with only a few scripted commands tossed in.

Sometimes I do include substacks in my splash. These typically contain 
things that never change and the app needs for all the other separate 
document stacks it opens, such as icon libraries or printing templates. 
But all the main working code is in the document mainstack which the 
splash app opens.

If you do not ever need to save changes to the stack, you don't need to 
use the splash stack method. Just build the mainstack as the app and do 
not choose to separate the substacks. It will behave as it does during 
development.

The reason "search for inclusions" isn't a good choice when using a 
splash stack is because the search looks through all the scripts to find 
references about what to include. A splash stack very rarely has much 
code, and searching will reveal nothing. It's easy enough to just select 
the libraries you know you'll need.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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