UPDATE: Missing Functionality

[J. Landman Gay]

If the stack is in RAM then you should be able to reference the fields if 
you use a complete reference, like "fld x of cd y of stack z".

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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On April 8, 2016 6:19:36 PM Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com> wrote:

> AND I've isolated my Send Email code and compiled as a standalone. THAT 
> also works! I think I've isolated the issue to the fact that I am 
> referencing a couple fields on a card in another stack that is open, but I 
> may not be able to do that in a standalone. In the test standalone I put 
> everything on one card.
>
> Bob S
>
>
>> On Apr 8, 2016, at 14:22 , Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well with the time calculator I discovered I was calling another custom 
>> function in my timeCalc function which I had NOT included in the card 
>> script of the standalone. So that is solved. I have not been able to figure 
>> out the revMail problem though. I'll loook into that later.
>>
>> Thanks for humoring me all. :-)
>>
>> Bob S
>>
>>
>>> On Apr 8, 2016, at 08:39 , Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Bob Sneidar wrote:
>>>
>>>> For the revmail issue, I put a simple revmail one line handler in
>>>> a button script in a new stack and compiled it as a standalone. In
>>>> the IDE it launches the Apple Mail program and fills in the fields
>>>> with whatever was in the arguments. In the standalone it does
>>>> nothing. It fails silently.
>>>>
>>>> In the time calculator, another simple app, the only Livecode command
>>>> I call is the convert command. That also fails silently.
>>>
>>> It sounds like the LC libs aren't being initialized.  Do you have a 
>>> preOpenbackground handler on the first card of your standalone?  If so, try 
>>> passing that message.
>>>
>>> The silent fail is a an unfortunate IDE design decision, in which the error 
>>> reporting dialog is not included by default.  Add that (see the last pane 
>>> of the Standalone Builder) and I'll be what you get is a "handler not 
>>> found" error.
>>>
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