Newbie Question

[MisterX]

Hi Dan,

With all respect but if you type 

  the effective filename of stack home

in the msg box you will get not false or an error 
but your license.rev stack (well hidden eh?)... 

MC also has one i think (substack of mchelp stack).

If it's possible, more power to you cause that's how it was working in
HyperCard (much better wasn't it?). 

Sounds like another conflict just waiting to happen at the most innoportune
moment if you trick this... Maybe the license stack is only checked at
startup so then you might be home free... But since the license stack is in
the root folder of the rev installation in windows in the least then it's
very probable that some stack name conflict might happen! 

Just for your info... just in case...
I dont know if allowing us to use "home" or whether the license deal is a
protection, nonetheless im dubiously dubitative on the possible
implications!

cheerios
Xavier
http://monsieurx.com
More than just cool Moires

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Dan Shafer
> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 17:30
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: Newbie Question
> 
> Hi, Hamburger1!
> 
> Welcome to the Revolution.
> 
> WHile there are lots of options for this in Rev (Xavier has 
> already pointed out two), as an old stackhead myself I think 
> the best way to do this is to create a stack (you can even 
> call it "Home" for all Rev
> cares!) to store all of this reusable stuff in and then when 
> you have a stack where you want to use it, just use a command like:
> 
> start using stack "Home"
> 
> This creates what Rev calls a "library" stack. It is so 
> darned efficient and effective that once you get used to it 
> you'll wonder how you lived without it. I have several such 
> libraries that contain related groups of scripts.
> 
> You'll also want to spend some time understanding the message 
> path in Rev, which is sufficiently different from HyperCard's 
> to cause some confusion in the early going. My book, 
> "Revolution: Software at th Speed of Thought", is available 
> through the RunRev store and has a good discussion of the 
> topic but may be a bit introductory level for someone with 
> serious HC experience. Richard Gaskin over at FourthWorld has 
> a great white paper on the message path and how you can 
> extend it with libraries, front and back scripts, etc. (URL:  
> http://www.fourthworld.com/embassy/articles/
> revolution_message_path.html).
> 
> 
> On Jul 14, 2005, at 4:55 AM, Hamburger1 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > I'm in the process of switching from HyperCard. I put 
> several handlers 
> > & functions in my home stack that are used in other stacks. 
> Where do I 
> > put these scripts in Revolution?
> > _______________________________________________
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