What to do when, when opening a stack?

[jameshale]

Hi,

I am wondering if it is written down somewhere what you can do, or more specifically what you shouldn't do when opening a stack/standalone.
As I understand it the order would be ...

preopenstack
openstack
peropencard
opencard

for example:
If I need to check the presence of a pref file on the user's disk would the preopenstack be the place to do it? If so, are custom properties and global variables available to me at that time?

[stam]

Hi James,

my understanding is that functions that rely on the common library (such as revCopyFile) won't work if called so early in the process that the common library hasn't loaded (eg in preOpenStack).

According to the documentation:

In a standalone application the Common library is implemented as a hidden group and made available when the group receives its first openBackground message. During the first part of the application's startup process, before this message is sent, the revCopyFile command is not yet available. This may affect attempts to use this command in startup, preOpenStack, openStack, or preOpenCard handlers in the main stack. Once the application has finished starting up, the library is available and the revCopyFile command can be used in any handler.

Other than that everything should work i think... (or there'd be little point in the handlers )
S.

[jameshale]

Thanks stam, I will look at what is in the common library stack.