Re: storing a stack as a customprop

Hi Ron, As a follow up to this - I am storing my prefs in a stack that starts as a custprop and is spit out when the application starts. The resulting stack is referenced throughout the application and data saved to it. It is not outputted each time the app starts (unless the user

Re: storing a stack as a customprop

Hi Klaus, Once again you come through - Thanks so much. I had forgotten the password prop and had become too focused on the fact that the stack was not included in the original bundle. Works just like it is supposed to. Thanks Ron On Dec 9, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi Ron,

Re: storing a stack as a customprop

As a follow up to this - I am storing my prefs in a stack that starts as a custprop and is spit out when the application starts. The resulting stack is referenced throughout the application and data saved to it. It is not outputted each time the app starts (unless the user deletes the

Re: storing a stack as a customprop

Thank you Jim, Mark, and Richard. That was it. As soon as you all pointed out the parentheses issue I did a head slap -- of course, the part of my brain that had tucked away that little point of grammar had been temporarily disconnected. It's happening a little more often these days

Re: storing a stack as a customprop

Le 18 oct. 09 à 17:43, Peter Brigham MD a écrit : . I hate this damn computer. I wish that I could sell it -- It doesn't do what I want it to... Only what I tell it. -- Peter Computers are useless. They only give you answers. Pablo Picasso a deep thought on a late

storing a stack as a customprop

I'm stuck. I swear I got this to work for a few minutes and now it isn't working. I changed something and broke it. I'm trying to store a stack (stackToSave) as a customproperty of a stack called updateList. As far as I can tell the way to store a currently open stack in a property is to

Re: storing a stack as a customprop

Peter, Use binfile instead of file. set the storedStack of stack updateList to URL binfile: filepath -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com Submit your software at http://www.quickestpublisher.com On 18 okt 2009, at

Re: storing a stack as a customprop

binfile instead of file doesn't change things. Still don't get the actual stack into the property, just the filepath. ??? Could it be that the stack hasn't finished saving to disk before I'm trying to fetch it from the disk to get it into the property? Do I have to do a wait with messages

Re: storing a stack as a customprop

Peter, Mind the brackets. I forgot about them. set the storedStack of stack updateList to URL (binfile: filepath) -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com Submit your software at http://www.quickestpublisher.com On 18

Re: storing a stack as a customprop

Peter, Are you sure you are including the URL keyword? RIGHT: set the storedStack of stack updateList to URL (binfile:filepath) WRONG: set the storedStack of stack updateList to (binfile:filepath) binfile instead of file doesn't change things. Still don't get the actual stack into the

Re: storing a stack as a customprop

put url file: filePath into stackData should be put url (file: filePath) into stackData Jim Ault Las Vegas On Oct 17, 2009, at 4:59 PM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: I'm stuck. I swear I got this to work for a few minutes and now it isn't working. I changed something and broke it. I'm

Re: storing a stack as a customprop

Peter wrote: set the storedStack of stack updateList to URL binfile: filepath Looks like Mark caught it. Without the parentheses, the engine interprets the above as: 1. get url binfile: 2. append that data with filepath 3. store it in the specified property But with parens it first