I'm following the referenced discussion because I 'm trying to solve the same problem concerning a stack which cards will be created by the user.
As :
• the users will not buy Revolution.
• The documentation (Printed 1.1.1 version) and on line 2.1
which are the same, are saying:
"If the stack is a standalone application, it cannot be saved."
"A Standalone application can save stacks in separates files,
but cannot save a stack in the standalone file".
• I'm french speaking and have difficulties to understand clearly the previous sentences which are to me contradictory.
I realized, without success, a lot of test interpreting the different meaning I could give to the second sentence.
I think a simple example saying how to save a simple standalone stack , if possible or how to save the standalone substack of a (Standalone Main Stack with a substack) if possible, or saying clearly that there is no way to save a Standalone stack or Substack application would help.
One confusing point for me is the fact that a stack (Or substack) could be a .rev which means to me that running this stack needs Revolution environment and no extension would mean that it has been build as a standalone application.
Am I right ??
Thanks for your help
Pierre
I looked for the documentation 1.1.1 Le dimanche, 16 nov 2003, à 19:54 Europe/Paris, Roger Guay a écrit :
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:
Thanks, Graham. Makes sense now that I think about it. By a "dataYes, but the external files can be stacks - after all, that's how the IDE
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
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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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