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A new year, same problems.
I'm still having issues building my projects as standalones if they incorporate script-only stacks. I thought it worked but it only does it sometimes.
So I was wondering if this had anything to do with it.
If I look at the stacks in the Project Browser, they all have cards associated with them. If I delete the cards from the script-only stacks, they reappear when I try to build the stand alone. Livecode also opens these empty cards its just created when I do the build.
I guess Livecode thinks that stacks must have at least one card. But these stacks are scripts being used as behaviours for other cards.

Is this card creation a problem? Is there a way to get rid of them?


Since when I mention the project browser people say "don't use the project browser" then I thought I'd say that I also looked in revApplicationOverview and revNavigator and the empty cards also appear there, but reappear when deleted or cannot be deleted.

When loaded, a stack always has at least one card.

With script-only stacks, neither the card nor anything you may put on it is saved; as the name implies, only the stack script is saved.

When you create a script-only stack, it is saved to disk as a text file. LC can't run text files so when the script loads, LC creates a temporary, blank stack with its one required card and places the script text into the stack script of the temporary stack. When you stop using the script-only stack, the blank temporary stack is deleted and only its stack script is saved to disk as a text file.

So what you see is normal behavior, unrelated to your build issue.

If your standalone doesn't work as expected because the script-only stack isn't working, it usually means you haven't included it in the stackfiles section in the mainstack's property inspector. LC uses the stackfiles to locate stacks whose scripts refer to them only by short names. The stackfiles provides linkage between the short name and the path to the actual stack. Note that if you change the name of the behavior or its object, all links will break and you'll have to update all references.

Also be sure to add the script-only stack to the Copy Files pane in standalone settings.

Thanks for the explanations.
Good to know what's going on and glad I can just ignore them.