Dialogs in library organization

[Dar Scott]

On Wednesday, February 4, 2004, at 04:50 PM, Monte Goulding wrote:

>> Now that I think about it, my message path is changed anyway.  I
>> remember something about the main stack of the executable main stack
>> file being inserted into the message path after the main stack for a
>> stack.  Maybe in IDE testing this can be emulated by putting it at the
>> front of the libraries or something.
>
> It's inserted into the same place as the Home stack currently is. Just
> before the engine.
...
>> Oh, the application main stack is moved in the message path anyway.
>
> This is one good reason to use a trivial splash screen to attach the 
> engine
> to.

My thinking was moving in this direction.

Maybe (in addition) a design step would be to review the names in the 
stack script of the mainstack of the main stack-file to make sure they 
all have appropriate prefixes and thus are very unlikely to clash with 
other names even in my naming weaknesses.

Even so, some names such as startup, preopenstack etc. cannot be 
changed and those must be designed to work even with the stack script 
inserted into other's paths.  Most can do a target check, though I'm 
not sure whether that will work for startup.  If not, it should be able 
to do another check.  Since I typically pass some of these in handlers 
for them, the target tests might be a good thing.

Dar Scott