As an absolutely non-professional I have of course to trust your judgement, - put I cannot stop wondering about "By definition, a card always fills the window," - why can card-size then apparently be expanded far far beyond the size of any existing screen?
A card is the pane within a window, but with groups you can place controls anywhere within a space of 65,535 x 65,535 pixels. Groups can have vertical and/or horizontal scrollbars.
P.S. : I think somewhere I saw some mention to the effect that user-data cannot be saved in a standalone????????? . I hope, I misunderstood it, - for elsewise I think I would have to leave revolution at once and look for other x-card options.
Nearly all operating systems work this way, except Mac. All the rest lock the app so it can't be modified while it's running. The Rev engine enforces this on Mac platforms for consistency.
It's not hard to work with: remember that your standalone can open other stack files, so just build your standalone with just a single window, such as an About window, and store your data in a separate stack file.
For your app this may be especially useful: You could support multiple documents, so different users sharing the same computer could each habe their own journal. The clone command will let you make a single document stack as a shell, and just clone it when the user selects File->New.
One thing to keep in mind with regard to data storage: many Windows systems and some Mac systems place restrictions on which folders can be written to. Depending on the permissions a given user has, they may not be able to write to the Applications folder.
For this reason Apple and Microsoft recommend writing data to specific folders reserved for that. Take a look at the entry for the specialFolderPath function in the Rev Dictionary to see how to find those folder easily (even on International systems since you don't have to worry about figuring out the path yourself).
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