After Compiling App: Can I Add Files

[ChristopherBodell]

Does anyone know how i can add a stack to an app that i made.

For Example if I created an application to be like a slide show or something, and name it "slide_show_1," is there a way that i can make another app and put it into the same directory as the first one and have a button or something run a command saying, "set the mainStack of this stack to stack "slide_show_1".

Once the application is compiled, do the stacks still count as stacks outside of the application? If anyone can help that would be great.

Many Thanks,
Christopher

[Mark]

Hi Christopher,

If you added a script to the standalone that searches for the stacks, it is possible. Otherwise, no.

Suppose you have a list field in your stack, called "Stacks". When the standalone opens, you could fill the field like this:

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on preOpenStack
  set the itemDel to slash
  put item 1 to -2 of the effective filename of this stack into myPath
  put the defaultFolder into myOldDir
  set the defaultFolder to myPath
  put the files into myList
  filter myList with "*.rev"
  put myList into fld "Stacks"
  set the defaultFolder to myOldDir
end preOpenStack

Now you have a field with the stacks.
Set the script of the field to the following:

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on mouseUp
  set the itemDel to slash
  put item 1 to -2 of the effective filename of this stack into myPath
  put the defaultFolder into myOldDir
  set the defaultFolder to myPath
  put slash & the selectedText of me after myPath
  set the defaultFolder to myOldDir
  go stack myPath in new window
end mouseUp

This way, you always have access to the stacks that are in the same folder as your standalone. Note, on the Mac, your stacks need to be in the same folder as the executable inside the application package.

The defaultFolder-stuff may or may not be necessary, you might also use different way to find the stacks. I've just added it to be a bit complete.

Best,

Mark

[BvG]

If you make stacks part of a standalone, none of them can be saved. But you can load any stack from another file into your standalone, as Mark demonstrated.

There are often confusions about what a stack is, when it's in a file (and which file), and where to put them in standalones for saving. Because there are 3 different (yet similar) things in Rev that are called stacks, I have compiled this List once:

1. Stacks are files, most often with the suffix ".rev"
2. Stacks are part of files when they're called mainstacks and substacks
3. Each stack file has exactly one mainstack
4. A stack file can have many substacks
5. A mainstack and all it's substacks which are an executable can't be saved
6. Mainstacks and substacks can also exist only in memory, without being within files or executables

[ChristopherBodell]

So there really is not way to edit the mainStacks and substacks of an application after its been compiled by revolution?

[Mark]

Hi Christopher,

You can edit the stacks, but you can't save them, because you can't save standalones once they have been built.

Best,

Mark

[ChristopherBodell]

Ok, that's what i thought. Thanks for your time.

Thank You,
Christopher