substack question

xbury.cs at clearstream.com xbury.cs at clearstream.com
Thu Jan 22 04:13:00 EST 2004


Doug,

You can have sub of sub of sub of sub but you have to use the procedure I 
mentioned before:

Make your 2nd level substacks with their 3rd level substacks and 
THEN make sub2 a substack of Mainstack 1

On 22/01/2004 10:10:11 use-revolution-bounces wrote:
>On 1/22/04 5:59 PM, "xbury.cs at clearstream.com" <xbury.cs at clearstream.com>
>wrote:
>
>> you can set a mainstack stack (with a substack) as a substack of 
another
>> mainstack
>> but you can't set a stack to be a substack of another substack. I 
tried,
>> it wont work...
>
>That is what I am finding too. So it seems that you can only have a 
two-deep
>stack hierarchy. Is that right?
>
>>
>> Workaround would be to make one central mainstack and keep your 
substacks
>> all
>> as brothers instead of creating children of children (hope that's
>> clear...). But you can
>> simulate children with some naming convention
>>
>> eg:
>> mainstack a1
>> substacks
>> aa1 - virtual substack of a1
>> ab1 - virtual substack of a1
>> ab2 - virtual substack of ab1
>> etc...
>
>Yes, I figured I would have to do something like that. Or use custom
>properties to "link" them all together.
>
>It would be nice to have more hierarchical levels though.
>
>doug
>
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>> Doug Lerner <doug at webcrossing.com>
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>> 22/01/04 09:51
>> Please respond to How to use Revolution
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>>       To:     How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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>>       Subject:        Re: substack question
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>> .
>>
>>
>> Logically speaking, A exists when the app opens. B is sometimes 
created,
>> sometimes not.
>>
>> If B is created, sometimes C is created, sometimes not.
>>
>> C must be a substack of B which is a substack of A.
>>
>> So the order is required. If it is possible. If not I'll need to find 
some
>> work-around.
>>
>> doug
>>
>> On 1/22/04 5:03 PM, "Brian Yennie" <briany at qldlearning.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Perhaps it matters what order you do things in?
>>> IOW, if you want a hierarchy A->B->C then what happens if you attach C
>>> to B, and then B to A (rather than B to A followed by C to B)?
>>>
>>> HTH
>>> -Brian
>>>
>>>> I tried testing, but I get an error saying that the stack I am trying
>>>> to
>>>> make a mainStack "is not a main stack". That is why I was wondering 
if
>>>> I
>>>> couldn't make another substack the mainstack of another stack.
>>>>
>>>> doug
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