Message: 5 Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 15:37:23 +0100 From: Graham Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Save in Standalone To: RunRev Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 16:46:28 -0800, Roger Guay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Yes, but the external files can be stacks - after all, that's how the IDEThanks, Graham. Makes sense now that I think about it. By a "data stack" you must mean a .rev stack, as a standalone data stack would have the same problem??? And, since I can't expect my users will have Revolution installed on their machine, I guess I'll have to use external files to save to and pull from?
works, and it's written in Transcript! Look at 'How to store preferences or
data for a standalone application' in the online documentation. I guess the
best way to start this off is to have a template stack as a substack of
your application and then when you start or when the user first wants to do
a 'Save' (depends on your design), then invoke some code to clone the
template stack, rename it and save it for the benefit of the user. As a
matter of fact, I don't myself know how to create a stack completely from
scratch, and I don't know how the IDE implements 'New Mainstack' and 'New
Substack' - but I imagine it via this template scheme. I'd be curious to
know - maybe one of the real gurus on this list will explain (anyone?)
TIA
Graham
--------------------------------------------------- Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK & France
I'm sorry for being a bit slow on this, Graham, but I'm missing some basic understanding: If I use a substack as a data file, doesn't that require that the user have Revolution installed? Otherwise they are necessarily standalones and therefor can't save data. Isn't that right?
Thanks, Roger
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