savingStandalone message

[Paul Dupuis]

I make use of the savingStandalone message in a few projects. Generally,
I would prefer a single message regardless of the number of platforms I
am building for. For ecample, I set a incremental "build' number on
savingStandalone and I would want that build number to be the same for
all platforms built for. If the message was sent for each platform I
suspect I could come up with some what to still do this, but the code
complexity would increase for a relatively simple task.

It would seem to me that if you are looking for platform specific
actions to modify the stack(s) used in each platform build, then ideally
you would want a set of platform specific messages. i.e

savingStandaloneForWindows
savingStandaloneForOSX
savingStandaloneForiOS
savingStandaloneForAndroid
savingStandaloneForHTML5
...

Or something like that. That way if you only meed to make a specific
scripted stack modification for Android, you only need to handle that
specific message.


On 11/15/2016 4:45 AM, Ali Lloyd wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Various tweaks to the standalone builder seem to have broken the way the
> savingStandalone message is supposed to work
> http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18778
>
> I have submitted a pull request that fixes it - the only wrinkle might be
> that it reintroduces the following bug:
> http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18364, namely that the
> savingStandalone message gets sent for each build platform.
>
> Now, my personal view is that that is how it should work, provided the
> stack state is restored before building for the next platform. It allows a
> more fine-grained build step where, if we added suitable parameters to the
> message, you could for example ensure substacks with platform/architecture
> specific resources were not included in the standalones where they are
> irrelevant.
>
> My question to you is the same as I asked Lyn Teyla in the above report:
>
> Would the following behavior be a problem for your use case, and if so why?
>
> store stack state (*)
> repeat for each target architecture
>    dispatch saving standalone message
>    modify stack for per-arch settings
>    deploy stack
>    restore to state in (*)
>    dispatch standalone saved message
> end repeat
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