New(?) Idea for Standalones

[ELS Prothero]

Folks,
That sounds pretty interesting. 
Wouldn’t that be doable by creating a splash stack the looked for a stack to launch in its folder. That stack would be the app. But I don’t know if a stand-alone compiled splash stack could call and run a raw xxx.livecode stack.

Can it?

Best,
Bill

William Prothero
https://earthlearningsolutions.org

> On Mar 26, 2021, at 7:20 PM, John Balgenorth via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> It sounds to me that what you want is a version of the development system
> without the ability to code or develop stacks.  Is that what HyperCard Player
> did for hyperCard stacks?  Richard should know of SuperCard could do it.
> 
> JB
> 
>> On Mar 26, 2021, at 6:33 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>> On 27/03/2021 00:35, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
>>> 
>>> What are you looking for?  When were these "good ol days" in which one could run stack files without an engine, and how did that work?
>>> 
>> I can describe what I would like; that may be similar to what Roger is looking for. Or it may not.
>> But I think it is :-)
>> 
>> 
>> I'd like to be able to develop a stack and give it to a friends or family, and have them run it on their iOS or Android devices. I don't want to get involved in building iOS standalones (or even installing xCode), so ideally I would give them a simple app (i.e. stackRunner kind of thing), and then my "app" as a document to load into that 'runner' app.
>> 
>>> There are many reasons it would be problematic to make one generic "player" for everyone's stack files, mostly user experience but also app store restrictions, and additional technical requirements for any devs using it to keep stacks playing nicely together.
>> 
>> I'm not going to sell apps, or distribute them widely, so I (don't think I) care about app store restrictions. I also don't care about 'user experience' in the sense of branding or feeling like a unique app.
>> 
>> I'm not sure what you mean by  "additional technical requirements..."
>> 
>> If that's feasible, I'd happily buy (or contribute cost towards) such a 'runner' app. I doubt that I'd be the only one.
>> 
>> Alex.
>> 
>> 
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