--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am new to Revolution. I managed to create a > simple database application to > keep a database of videotapes at a local tv station > where I work. Everything > works just like I want except for one small > detail...I can't figure out how > to save the updated data that I've added to the > database when it closes. > > I'm from a novice hypercard background, and I'm used > to Hypercard > automatically saving changes as they are made, and > just assumed Revolution > would do the same thing. After researching the > documentation, I found the > part that says that a standalone cannot save changes > to itself, and that the > data should be in a seperate stack or file. > Unfortunately, I can't figure out > how to do this from the documentation. > > I wrote a script into the stack that comes up when > the window is closed and > ask if you want to save the changes, I just can't > figure out how to actually > save the changes so that when the application is run > again, the changes will > be there. > > Any help, or locations of tutorials that would help > me understand this would > be greatly appreciated. > By the way, the stack and standalone was built in > Mac OS-X using the trial > version. > > Thanks, > Jim Williams >
Hi Jim, And welcome on board of the Revolution fleet :-) Steer the transcript documentation to the 'save' command and check out its definition. You should note that at the bottom, there's a tiny disclaimer that you cannot save data into a stand-alone stack. What this means is that when building your stand-alone application, you will have to put the substacks in a separate folder. So basically, you can't write 'self-modifying' executables ; your data stacks will have to remain separate. Hope this helped, Jan Schenkel. ===== "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2 _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
