Saving and Talking

[Greg Wills]

Thanks Kurt, Malte and Sarah for your responses to my question. Your 
replies helped me to understand why it would not work. I misunderstood 
that the sub-stacks would be linked to the revSpeak external in the 
build.

I have not tried your suggestions, but understand why they would work.

I have done another search in the Rev archives and came across a very 
simple solution from Klaus which I tried and it works in both Mac OS X 
and Windows builds. Here it is; (Thanks Klaus.)

Put this into the script of the store-data-stack

on preopenstack
    start using stack "the standalone one" ## well, you guess
    ...
end preopenstack

and:

on closestack
     stop using stack "the standalone one"
     ...
end closestack


This way not only handlers and functions of stack "the standalone one"
are accessible but also its externals/libraries, which are missing
otherwise as you just experienced :-)

Hope that helps...




On 02/08/2004, at 10:26 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com 
wrote:

> Hi Greg,
>
>> I can get the Distribution Builder to build a standalone that will 
>> save
>> changes (button names).
>
>> I can get the Distribution Builder to build a standalone that will
>> speak the button name.
>
>> BUT not in the same build.
>
> I guess the stack you are saving does not know that it needs to use the
> revspeak external. Try having the script that does the speak in the
> standalones mainstack and call that script from the stack you are 
> saving.
>
> e.G. declare a global or custom prop  that holds the text to be spoken 
> and
> speak that global / custom prop from the main stack.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Malte
>
>

> On Aug 2, 2004, at 1:02 AM, Greg Wills wrote:
>
>> I can get the Distribution Builder to build a standalone that will 
>> save
>> changes (button names).
>>
>   How do you do that?  I was under the impression that any persistent
> changes had to be made to a substack when running from a standalone.
> What I usually do is to open a small stack (which does nothing except
> allow me to initialize the Revolution runtime), immediately make it
> invisible,  and then open a secondary stack which allows changes to be
> saved (and in effect does all the work).
>
> -Kurt


Kurt maybe I didn't make it clear. It is saving to a sub-stack of the 
standalone. It has taken me ages to understand how to do this properly. 
Having now got to the point that I can actually do it gives me such a 
sense of freedom. Now I feel I can do whatever I want and get users to 
alter info in the stack as they want (yeh basic I know, but a 
satisfying breakthrough for me). It actually works, works reliably and 
not complicated - now!!

I am no expert on this, but if you want my explanation of how I have 
done this, I will be happy to share.

cheers

Greg