[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After 16 years working with HyperCard I've come to rely on autosaving. > I know some people don't like the fact that you can't go back to the > original. I know it is not the way most programs work. I know that saving an > entire > stack (which is what Revolution would have to do) takes time. But for the type > of stacks I use (basically moderate-size text files) it is very handy. > For example, the other day I was preparing a screen shot for Heather to use > on the new packaging. I had made some changes to the stack and then went to > print it as a PDF without saving. I know one should save frequently, but > printing > did not seem like a particularly dangerous operation. Well, Revolution > crashed and, once again, ate all of the changes I'd made. An autosave is handy > on > general programs, it is critical on one which is "stability challenged". > The autosave plugin I envision would save on each closeField, on sorts (where > the contents of a field or card order in the stack is changed), on puts > (where one multiplies the quantity times the price and PUTS the result into a > total > field). It should probably autosave changes to scripts, although hitting > Enter twice to close the editor already accomplishes this. > Because the plugin would be optional, this behavior would be optional. > Obviously some users and some applications would not want/need autosave. I > understand that this would require twice as much RAM per stack (enough to hold > the > original and enough to hold the saved stack) - for most applications RAM is no > longer an issue on modern computers (in the near future we will be able to > install 16 G!) and modern computers can save moderate-sized stacks almost > instantly > (we are talking RAM to RAM). > Anyway, you asked... > And thank you for asking.
Your wish is Chipp Walters' command: look in RevNet for his altAutoArchive plugin. It does HyperCard one better: it saves multiple versions so you can go back to more than just the last saved version. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
