AW: How does RunRev finds externals when building the standalone?

[Brian Yennie]

You can =). The side effect of using a separate stack is that you can  
load or unload the externals on demand. But yes, you can set the  
externals property of any stack you want, and when it loads, the  
externals should come with it. Just be careful to set the paths  
relative to the standalone or set the directory property before  
loading the externals.

For me, I like having that separate resource stack that I can load  
when I want it, but admittedly, it is often not necessary.

>
> Hi Brian,
> that sounds interesting. What I don't understand is, why do I need  
> another
> stack to bind the externals and why can't I just set the external  
> properties
> of my main stack and put the externals into the same directory as my  
> main
> stack?
>
> Tiemo
>
>>
>> Although I hope someone can help you make things work with the
>> standalone builder, there is a manual way to set the externals for a
>> stack which was used before the standalone builder did things for  
>> you.
>> You can create an empty stack, set its externals property and load
>> this stack when you need it from your standalone.
>>
>> Roughly:
>>
>> 1) Create an empty stack, call it say "valentina.rev"
>> 2) In the message box, execute: set the externals of this stack to
>> "v4rev.bundle"&cr&"v4rev.dll"
>> 3) Save this stack and the Valentina externals to somewhere where you
>> standalone will be able to access them
>> 4) Modify your application to do something like this:
>>
>> set the directory to "path.to.externals/" (this could be a relative
>> path)
>> start using stack "valentina.rev"
>>
>> There are many variations on how you could setup the files, but the
>> takeaway is this:
>>
>> Whenever Rev loads a stack with it's "externals" property set, it  
>> will
>> attempt to load the externals listed.
>> From a standalone, you can load a regular stack which you've stashed
>> somewhere which already has this property set.
>> Thus if you can anticipate where your externals will be (using
>> relative paths to your standalone), you can create a stack which
>> serves to load them for you.
>>
>> Hope that helps. It's easier when the standalone builder just works,
>> but it can be handy to get to know the lower level workings of
>> external loading as well.