creating and/or replacing stacks
Lars Brehmer
larsbrehmer at mac.com
Thu Sep 17 11:10:49 EDT 2009
Jim,
Thanks for the links.
I guess I didn't phrase my question very well. My standalones have
always been splash screens with the actual stacks in the program
folder. It's one of those stacks I want to be able to replace with the
update, so this isn't new to me. It's actually figuring out how to do
it that I need help with, but after a quicl browse through the links
you provided, I am pretty sure I will find my answers. Thanks again.
Cheers
Lars
>> Can anybody point me to a tutorial or a demonstration or anything
>> that emplains creating or deleting or replacing stacks from a
>> standalone? What I want to do is make a standalone that updates
>> another standalone by replacing one of its stacks with one from the
>> updater stack. As basic as this probably is, I haven't a clue how to
>> do it, and all atttempts to figure it out have failed.
>
> First concept for you to realize is that a standalone is a compiled
> app or exe, which means once compiled, it can no longer be modified.
>
> This is kind of like an oil painting where the artist wants to go back
> and replace a blue color with one that is a little darker. Can't undo
> the painting, but you can make a new one and change the blue color.
> For Rev, this means go back and compile a new version of your
> standalone.
>
> What you can do is create a standalone that uses stacks that are not
> part of the standalone, then replace those stacks. There are many
> discussions on the list about this and the key word to look for is
> 'splash screen'
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