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More than a thousand, I'm sure., and maybe twice that many since I don't have entries every day, but some days I can have up to 8 of them for different meetings. It is my business notebook starting in 2009.

If this is the likely problem, I started fixing it last night. I fortunately had a backup ...

I have been using a converted Hypercard stack with Revolution and now LiveCode for about four years. It is on a Mac. I update it daily with the date at the top of the end card of the stack -- it is my notebook. The first of the year (yesterday), the stack suddenly reverted to a December 18 version ...

One idea is to do basically what you were doing in HC: have the data stacks as separate stacks (and therefore separate files.

The alternative is to use a splash screen approach, where your splash screen stack has nothing except a launcher for a different stack.



Thanks. I may not have been ...

Right - but in the development environment your substacks are... er... substacks of the mainstack. If they were in a different folder from the mainstack you'd either have to use an absolute location (ugh) or use the defaultFolder property. Assuming the substacks are in a subfolder located in the ...

I have continued to look through postings for other things that I may be missing. Is there some syntax I have to use to ensure that the correct file gets opened for a substack if it is not in the main stack? The buttons I have been using in the development environment just say
on mouseUp
open ...

"substacks that are in separate files"...

Are these in separate files in your development environment or are they substacks of the main stack? If they're substacks, when you created the standalone did you select the checkbox to make them separate files? If so, you may need to set the defaultFolder ...

In looking at the strace, it looks like the Linux runtime does not even try to find the substack files. When I click on the buttons to open them, the button highlights, but nothing happens.

Any other ideas?

I was able to fix somethings in the packaging, but now I find that it does not try to ...

I need to do arbitrary text string searches on my new Rev stacks. I would like not to have to write a button on each of the stacks just to do this. Is there somewhere that the modal behavior of the Find menu item is documented? I looked in the User Guide and Dictionary and was unsuccessful at ...

I built a number of very successful stacks in HCard. They are all opened from my old HCard Home card, sort of like my own desktop. Some of the stacks are quite large.

I converted them to run on Rev using a trial of Studio. I have a primary stack that has a bunch of links on it that open substacks ...

I don't think there is a reason to keep "substacks" in separate files.

Thanks, Mark for your advice. I have all of the substacks attached to a single "replacement Home" card as an anchor and main stack. It looks like the original HyperCard Home stack except that the stack icons have been ...

I have a main stack with (so far) 7 substacks. The main stack and each of the substacks is in a separate file because I need to manage each of those data sets independently.

I have seemingly randomly lost changes I made to the substacks while I was developing them. I thought I was very careful to ...

I use the HyperCard "find" on my stack text a lot. I thought I was going to have to program a menu or "find button" on my stacks, and then I discovered the "find" menu in Revolution. The first few times I used it, it picked the stack as the target, picked the fields as a target, searched the text ...

I use the HyperCard "find" on my stack text a lot. I thought I was going to have to program a menu or "find button" on my stacks, and then I discovered the "find" menu in Revolution. The first few times I used it, it picked the stack as the target, picked the fields as a target, searched the text ...

I do have separate files for the substacks, so I will check the permissions at my next chance. I'm sure my uid is different on the systems, so I am crossing my fingers.


Update. I was tranferring the files on a FAT32 file system on a memory stick, so when it was mounted on Linux it came up with ...

Thanks, folks.

I do have separate files for the substacks, so I will check the permissions at my next chance. I'm sure my uid is different on the systems, so I am crossing my fingers.

Mark, I actually downloaded Studio for the trial period. I didn't think Media could make all of the changes I ...