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Standalone Application back to Stack

Converting a standalone application back to a stack requires removing the resources that were added in the process of making the standalone. It also requires changes to the Type and Creator and the Has BND must be set to false

To convert a stand alone application to a stack to you need to use a program called ResEdit, the latest version of which is 2.13.

ResEdit

ResEdit let's you browse through a file's resource fork. (all Macintosh files consist of 2 parts or forks, the data fork and the resource fork). Resedit allows you to add , remove or change any of the resources in the resource fork. Being so powerful it can easily let you completely wreck a file so it's unusable or causees your Mac to crash. All books describing ResEdit advise you to work on copies of a file or program, not the original! It's so easy to make a copy that really this should be your first step in using this powerful resource editor.

Resources

    Here is a list of resources from a normal hyperCard stack

  1. bits, BITS, CHEK, cicn, DITL, DLOG, HCcd, ic14, ic18, ICN#, ICON, ics#, ics4, ics8, LDEF, LENS, MENU, PICT, PLTE, snd ,STR#, theR, vers, XCMD, XFCN

    Here is a list of extra resources added when the stack was converted to a standalone

  2. aete, BILL, BNDL, cfrg, CODE, dctb, finf, FOND, FREF, HCRZ, hdlg, hmnu, hovr, hwin, MLCB, mstr, NFNT, OPER, PAT#, PRST, scsz, spce, STR, WDAT, WDEF, WTIM, WTLK

    The task of conversion of the application back to a normal stack requires the removal of all those extra resources. Every application will be different, so the rule is not to remove resources that belong to a normal stack, that is not to remove resources that appear in list 1.

Using ResEdit

It's simplest to put the copy of your stand alone application into the ResEdit folder and work on it from there

  1. Open ResEdit
  2. Open the stand alone application from the dialog box or from the File menu
  3. Select each resource you need to delete and delete it
  4. Select Get info for ... from the File menu

  5. Change APPL to STAK and BILL to WILD

  6. Set the Has BND to false

  7. Now save and exit ResEdit and try out your Stack! You may have to increase the Memory Requirement particularly if you use colour and quicktime.

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