General do's and don'ts for standalones

[kaveh1000]

Hi all

Apologies that I am starting a new topic after some discussions on this topic:

https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=32981

but I think there is a general problem I have, in that my standalone stacks are not behaving as the IDE. For example, a field should be automatically filled with some text. It works fine as it has always done in IDE but the standalone has stopped working. There is a main stack and there are some 10 substacks.

Up to now, I have not seen any differences in behaviour from IDE to Standalone but it is now frustrating to see them. And hard to pin them down. I have looked at the Standalone Application Settings and tried to select correctly as far as I understood.

I am sorry this is very general, but I would be grateful for any points that I should specifically take care of when saving standalones.

Thanks.

[dunbarx]

HI.

Did you change LC versions from the time the standalones worked until now?

Standalones should functionally work the same as IDE stacks, as long as you stay fully inside the "stack" and its subStacks. Can you reproduce the difference between the two? If so, it might be very useful to us and the team.

Craig

[kaveh1000]

Hi Craig. No change. I have been on Indy 9.0.5rc1 for weeks. I just tried with 9.5 and same problem.

There is very little info that is not specific to my stack. But there might be a hint in the topic I originally started:

https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=32981

where in the IDE, something has gone wrong in my substacks, specifically relating to Data Grids which are complicated beasts!

I am now going back to a previous working version and patching scripts to get back to a working copy...

[FourthWorld]

Is the DataGrid library selected for inclusion in the standalone?

[kaveh1000]

Interesting point. No it's not, Richard. But I never had it on and DataGrids were working in Standalone.

I tried switching on now and it seems there is an improvement in that I can navigate the DG. But there are other problems like fields not filling up automatically.

Anyway I have now laboriously rebuilt from a few days ago. Thankfully I had most script in the stack so not too many places to look!

[FourthWorld]

Interesting point. No it's not, Richard. But I never had it on and DataGrids were working in Standalone.

Perhaps the others used automated inclusions?

I tried switching on now and it seems there is an improvement in that I can navigate the DG. But there are other problems like fields not filling up automatically.

Sounds like something is not getting a message it's expecting. What message triggers the field population?

[kaveh1000]

All good points:

Perhaps the others used automated inclusions?

No. I just tried converting an older stack using manual inclusion and DataGrid not checked. The DataGrid in the substack works perfectly.

Sounds like something is not getting a message it's expecting. What message triggers the field population?

Unfortunately stack is too complex to pin that down.

[kaveh1000]

Hi folks

I think I have found the problem. I installed Thierry's excellent sunnYrex for regex. When building standalones I did not follow instructions carefully and I did not add his stack to the build. The strange thing is that some things worked, using his macros and some unexpected things happened. Fingers crossed, following his patience and multiple emails, I think all is sorted. The latest builds reflect exactly what I see in the IDE.

It's always worrying when you have something that is hard to pinpoint and to reproduce. Anyway it is all learning.