LC905rc1 Standalone Weirdness with External Stacks

[J. Landman Gay]

Those are good reasons to separate the substacks from the mainstack. If you 
don't plan to save changes to them, leave them attached. They open faster 
that way, which is particularly noticeable on mobile.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On June 28, 2019 5:49:14 PM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Oh that is interesting. Still, I can see one use case where separating them 
> is a good thing. There have been times I made a change to one or two 
> substacks, and only needed to replace the versions from the "Standalone" 
> with the new one(s). Also, if a stack is a part of the EXE, aren't the read 
> only? In other words, you cannot save things like properties by saving the 
> stack?
>
> Bob S
>
>
>> On Jun 28, 2019, at 10:34 , J. Landman Gay via use-livecode 
>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 6/28/19 10:35 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
>>> I'm under the impression that in a standalone, ALL stacks besides the one 
>>> in the executable are external stacks. That is, the Standalone Builder will 
>>> copy any substacks to a folder as individual stacks. Even in a MacOS 
>>> standalone, the package that is the app can be opened and you will find 
>>> your individual stacks in Resources/_MacOS.
>>
>> There is a switch in the Stacks pane of Standalone Settings to control that 
>> behavior. If checked, stacks will be separated out to individual 
>> stackfiles. The default is to leave substacks attached to the mainstack as 
>> they are in the IDE.
>>
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>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>
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