Richard, After going to Key Ray's site, I found "asup" as code for Application Support constant for OS X. Is this the best place to put your app when you install it on an user's OS X computer?
Charles Szasz [email protected] On Aug 5, 2010, at 10:35 AM, Richard Gaskin [via Runtime Revolution] wrote: > charles61 wrote: > > > I have a standalone consisting of a splash stack and an app stack. I have > > set > > up a script that the user can insert some information into two tables - one > > for students and one for adults. These tables are on two different cards in > > my app stack. > > > > I have been testing my standalone on Windows XP where it was installed in > > the AllUsersAppData directory using an installer program. I tried the > > following script for the card that has the student list: > > > > on closeCard > > Save "School Report" as "\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application > > Data" > > end closeCard > > > > But this does not save the data in the two tables! Any suggestions would > > be > > greatly appreciated! > > When the unexpected happens, it's time for error-checking. One of the > challenges of crafting apps is that when you're being diligent only > about half your code will actually do what your app does, and the other > half will be all the stuff you add to account for when things go wrong. :) > > In Rev, most error conditions are reported in "the result" immediately > after a command fails, and for I/O and other system-related tasks you > may find an additional OS-supplied error code using the sysError function. > > So to better understand what's happening there you may try adding that > to your script. > > Also, by hard-wiring your paths they won't work on international systems > where the spelling may differ, and may not survive changes to the OS if > MS changes the names of those folders in a future version. > > The solution for that is Rev's specialFolderPath function. Rev provides > a variety of constants you can pass to that function to get the path, > and pretty much all OS constants provided by the OS vendor can be used > as well -- Ken Ray's put together this comprehensive list: > <http://sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/file010.htm> > > While Rev doesn't include a built-in constant for that, looking at Ken's > list you can use the OS constant instead, which is "35". > > If you want that to be cross-platform you can use Ken's list to get the > Application Support constant for OS X, but for now here's your code > modified with specialFolderPath and including the error check which will > hopefully help diagnose the issue. > > A ha! As I was rewriting your code I noticed that you're specifying > only the folder and not the file name, so effectively you're asking Rev > to try to turn the stack into a folder, which of course it can't do. > The fix for that is included in this revision: > > on closeCard > Save "School Report" as (specialFolderPath(35)&"/School Report.rev") > if the result is not empty then > answer error "An error occurred while saving the report: "&cr&\ > the result & "("& sysError() &")" > end if > end closeCard > > Note that the ".rev" extension can be changed to anything else you feel > might be appropriate for your app. Rev opens stacks based on their > internal stucture, and a standalone is not required to use the .rev file > name extension to work with stack files, allowing you to define your own > document types. > > If you want to use a custom file name extension you may want to check > <http://filext.com/> to see if another program may be using it. That's > not a comprehensive list (Microsoft doesn't maintain such an index), but > it'll at least help avoid some of the more obvious conflicts. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World > Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com > Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com > revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [hidden email] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > > View message @ > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Saving-data-in-List-Magic-tables-tp2314915p2314948.html > > To unsubscribe from Saving data in List Magic tables, click here. > -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Saving-data-in-List-Magic-tables-tp2314915p2315052.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
