Hi Joe,
I would start with a template stack. When your standalone starts up,
it should immediately clone the template and give it a name. For
example "Untitled 1".
When the user quits or chooses the Save menu item from the File menu,
you can show the prompt, asking whether to save or not, and show the
save file dialog window. If the user chooses to save, you can
optionally change the name and subsequently save the already cloned
stack to the preferred location.
Your script doesn't save the stack, because the cloned stack has no
file path. You need to give the save command a file path. Something like
case "Save As..." -- save copy of stack
ask file "Save file as..."
if it is not empty then
put it into myFile
save this stack as myFile
end if
break
This doesn't work well with substacks but works fine if you clone the
stack first.
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On 21 sep 2008, at 17:30, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
I guess this is my day for confusion. (smile) I'm not using a player
for any of this.
I have a fairly simple stack consisting of some 50 cards, each of
which has one or more images and some fields and/or buttons. Using
the bucket tool, a user may color inside the lines of the images as
they see fit - often pretty complex. Once colored, they may print
portions of the cards that I designate in the print routine; but,
once the stack is closed, all of these colorations disappear. I
would like for them to be able to Save a copy of the colorized stack
under a new name, as a document?, from the standalone. Then, as you
have indicated it can, have that copy open as a document "of" the
standalone when double clicked upon. So far, I've used:
case "Save..."
answer "Save Coloring Book?" with "Cancel" or "OK"
if it is "Cancel" then exit menuPick
save this stack
break
case "Save A Copy As..."
answer "Save a Copy of this Coloring Book?" with "Cancel" or
"OK"
if it is "Cancel" then exit menuPick
clone this stack
save stack ("Copy of "&(the effective name of this stack))
break
This kind of works, but doesn't result in a separate stack that
contains the colored images; just the same as the original, "plain"
images stack.
Thanks for all your comments.
Joe Wilkins
On Sep 21, 2008, at 1:58 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote:
Hi Joe,
You can save and open stacks with the same standalone. There is no
need for a player. As Richard states, you can use these stacks as
documents, in case you need to save custom properties and objects
for instance. You can even give these stacks their own extension or
file type and, with a little bit of tweaking (more on Windows than
on Mac) have them open automatically with your standalone when the
users double-clicks on them.
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Best regards,
Mark Schonewille
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