On Dec 16, 2009, at 11:20 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
James Hurley wrote:
Actually, I had recalled that the splash screen was the way to go.
My question is really quite primitive. When the user quits, or just
wants to save the substacks, what is the action plan, specifically,
what
is the code? Save.....the substacks name. Is a file path required?
Like
I said, my question is quite primitive.
Depends on what your stack does. If you've changed the defaultfolder,
then you'll need to calculate a file path back to your satellite
stacks
(I don't like the word "substacks" in this case because those are
stacks
embedded in the mainstack, and they can't save data. Separate stacks
opened by a splash app need a different name.) The default location
when
your splash starts up is the same folder as the splash app is in. You
can handle this several ways:
1. Reset the defaultfolder to the one where your splash exists, if
you've changed it. Refer to satellite stacks by their relative path.
2. Calculate file paths to the satellite stacks and use those as stack
references.
3. Set the stackfiles property of your splash so that it points to
relative path locations for the satellite stacks. Then you can just
refer to them by their short names and Rev can still find them. This
is
perhaps the easiest way to manage it.
However you determine the stack paths, the rest is the same. Loop
through the names of your satellite stacks when the user requests to
quit, and save each one. You can ask the user if they want to save
each
of them, if that fits your app better.
Assuming three stacks in the same folder as your standalone, with the
defaultfolder set to that directory:
on shutdownRequest
repeat for each item i in "stack1.rev,stack2.rev,stack3.rev"
save stack i
close stack i
end repeat
pass shutdownRequest
end shutdownRequest
Jacque,
Do you know what the file permissions implications are if a user other
than the one who installed the app is trying to save stacks to the app
bundle?
Devin
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University
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