Standalone Build Problem

[J. Landman Gay]

If you set all the stacks as substacks of the splash, they can't be modified either. The only way they can be modified is if they're separate stacks (or a mainstack with substacks) on disk. Basically everything in the standalone file is permanent. 

On June 2, 2015 6:47:38 PM CDT, Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com> wrote:
>The problem is, then the mainStack cannot be modified, and it needs to
>be. I set properties in the mainStack. I have settings cards in the
>mainStack. And besides, I want to eventually have a cool splash screen
>with a custom shape. It’s called Forms Generator, and I envisioned a
>generator or maybe something like a grinder with large PDF, Word and
>Excel icons coming out of it. 
>
>Bob S
>
>
>> On Jun 2, 2015, at 16:15 , J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
>wrote:
>> 
>> On 6/2/2015 4:47 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
>>> I was thinking about how to proceed, and I realize that what I need
>>> to do is have both stacks open, then set the mainstack of each of
>>> what are now substacks of my app stack, to the splash stack, then
>set
>>> the mainstack of my primary app stack to the splash stack.
>> 
>> I'm not sure there's much point in using the splash method in this
>case since it's all just one file anyway and changes can't be saved --
>unless, maybe, you just want a splash image on startup and you don't
>want that card in the way later on. But if you don't care about a
>startup screen, I think I'd just compile the main stack into the
>standalone.
>> 
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