Standalone won't run

[Bob Sneidar]

Maybe a better approach would be to have separate card layouts for the different OS'es? 

Bob


On Jun 26, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:

> I finally tracked this down by using good old fashioned answer dialogs as
> suggested by Ken.
> 
> In addition to being the first build I had done under Lion, it was also the
> first build I had done with 5.5 and it seems that the problem was related
> to 5.5.
> 
> At startup, I have a handler that goes through my stacks and sets fonts
> according to platform.  There were no changes in that handler between the
> stack version I used to make the problematic build and the prior stack
> version which built fine under 5.0.
> 
> What I had omitted to to take into accoun was that the substacks
> property can included some rev stacks in the standalone, for example "ask
> dialog", "answer dialog", and most significantly in my case
> "revDatagridLibrary". There are no doubt other stacks that can end up in a
> standalone depending on which libraries it uses
> 
> My debugging showed that the setting of fonts was causing the standalone to
> abort silently when processing the revDatagridLibrary stack.  This did not
> happen when the application was built using 5.0, only when built with 5.5
> so some change in the datagrid library brought this issue to light..
> 
> I changed my code to exclude the rev stacks that are copied into the
> standalone from the font setting handler and the standalone now runs fine.
> 
> I still don't understand why setting the font of an object would cause a
> silent abort, seems like there should be an error message of some sort.
> 
> I am also questioning whether I really need to set fonts like this.  It
> feels like setting the font of the main stack would cause any other
> substacks and controls to inherit the main stack's font, except for
> controls that have a font explicitly defined.  Is that correct?
> 
> 
> Pete
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Ken Corey <ken at kencorey.com> wrote:
> 
>> Does your code get a chance to run at all?  If so, you can put alerts in
>> to announce how far the app gets before it's crashing.
>> 
>> on preOpenStack
>> answer "preOpenStack"
>> [...regular code...]
>> end preOpenStack
>> 
>> on openStack
>> answer "openStack"
>> [...regular...]
>> end openStack
>> 
>> and so on.  If LiveCode is running at all before crashing, you get a
>> chance to find the bug.
>> 
>> I'm finding with my stacks is that the preOpenCard and openCard handlers
>> get run much less in the IDE during development.  I'd start by taking a
>> hard look at those.
>> 
>> Richard, I don't think it's the executable bit, as the problem seems to be
>> on both platforms, and the computers both are *trying* to run the
>> standalone.  That wouldn't happen if the executable bit weren't set.
>> 
>> -Ken
>> 
>> 
>> On 25/06/2012 02:24, Peter Haworth wrote:
>> 
>>> Update to this.  I created the standalone on my Windows computer and
>>> neither the Mac nor the versionswill run so looks like there's a problem
>>> with my stack file.  It runs OK in the IDE though.
>>> 
>> 
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