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Is it possible to:

1. Save a binary stack as a script-only stack?

2. Save a script-only stack as a binary stack?

If, in case #1, a binary stack contains images and other objects, do they get lost on conversion to a script-only stack?

Yes, all controls and other imported binary data would be lost. The revMenubar shows how to create a stack with controls and images from a script only stack.

Going from a script only stack to a binary stack would just require you to copy and paste the code into the stack/card script (or where ever)

Going from a script only stack to a binary stack would just require you to copy and paste the code into the stack/card script (or where ever)

emphasis is mine.

Frankly having to copy-paste each script into each object sounds like a 'right bother'.

richmond62 wrote: Thu Aug 27, 2026 6:39 pm

Going from a script only stack to a binary stack would just require you to copy and paste the code into the stack/card script (or where ever)

emphasis is mine.

Frankly having to copy-paste each script into each object sounds like a 'right bother'.

You can create a script only stack that builds an entire GUI stack with objects etc from a single paste. For example, the demo for the SoudiumXT widget library is a single .livecodescript file that can be pasted into a stack script. Saving and re-opening (or firing a preopenstack from the message box) builds the entire stack from a single paste.

https://github.com/SethMorrowSoftware/S ... codescript

of course for the functionality to actually work, you will need to have SodiumXT installed.

EDIT: All of these demos are each built from a single lievcodescript file.

A script-only stack contains only the script of the stack.

That is a fair distinction. My point was that it is possible to build a GUI app from a single script only stack, including all objects, etc without having to manually apply scripts to each object.

You can always include images as base64 encoded data in the stack only script. It'll make your stack balloon in size, but no dependencies is nice too