Hi List Members,
I hope you'll humour me in my asking these two naive questions.
The first is on developing MC stacks on the Mac, and then creating
standalones for both Macs and Windows. Is my understanding correct that
to build a standalone for Windows, I must run the Standalone Builder on a
Windows machine?
The second question is about users' ability to save data in fields
in standalones. Much of my experience in developing courseware has been
with HyperCard, and, if I recall, HyperCard standalones can save data in
fields. But I have been following a recent thread on this list where it
has been suggested that fields in MC standalones cannot save data. Is
this true? When an MC standalone is closed, are the fields effectively
"emptied"? I've always viewed the two important functions of fields as
displaying and storing data. If the data-storing capability of fields in
MC standalones does not exist, then my development of courseware will
have to be substantially rethought because a primary function of
courseware is that it often has modest database features such as note
fields, fields for track user progress, etc.
Greg
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Gregory Lypny
Associate Professor of Finance
Concordia University
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