Making "Real Stack" invisible

Terry Judd tsj at unimelb.edu.au
Mon Sep 22 06:46:38 EDT 2008


Hi Joe - you could start with the User Guide, which is accessible from the
Help menu in Rev. There is a pretty good section on custom properties
starting on page 220. Section 7.8.9 explains how to store files in custom
properties.

Regards,

Terry...


On 22/9/08 6:24 PM, "Joe Lewis Wilkins" <pepetoo at cox.net> wrote:

> Thanks for your suggestions, Terry,
> 
> I still haven't wrestled with the concept of "custom property" yet. It
> seems to be very useful, but I've yet to spend enough time with it to
> understand what it really is. Something like a pointer in other
> languages, perhaps? I just find the name unsettlingly non-descriptive
> of what it is and does. I'm sure there are some excellent descriptions
> somewhere in the RunRev world, but I've yet to go looking for one.
> 
> Joe Wilkins
> 
> On Sep 22, 2008, at 12:54 AM, Terry Judd wrote:
> 
>> You can always store the 'invisible' stack in a location that isn't
>> obvious
>> to the user (check out the specialFolderPath function) having either
>> cloned
>> and saved an existing substack or written out and saved a stack that
>> you
>> have stored in a custom property.
>> 
>> Terry...
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