As a complete beginner with Revolution I�ve found it very hard to get a grip on this. It�s a big stumbling block for those used to Hypercard, where the IDE was taken for granted, and the concept of a standalone was unfamiliar. But the ability to deliver standalones cross-platform is a major attraction of Revolution � so it�s disappointing that such a key feature as how to save user changes to a stack is hard to grasp.
I can understand that a standalone is an application, and as such shouldn�t modify itself � i.e. the user can�t save any changes within the application. No problem � write it out to a file, and read it back in on startup. But with structured data such as an Address Book you want to save the data as a stack � that�s the whole point! The answer given in the documentation is to set up a "dummy" stack as the mainstack, then do the work in a substack which is not itself compiled into a standalone, but left as a Revolution file (.rev). I simply couldn�t get this to work, until I came across the answer in the lists.runrev archive � go to the Standalone Settings item on the File menu - select the "Stacks" tab - click the box to "Move substacks into individual stackfiles". This makes the substack persist as a .rev. The standalone knows where it is (automagically in the standalone's folder), and because it's a .rev it can be saved... Before finding this tip, I had been messing about for ages trying to get the standalone to pick up .rev files that were not part of its stack file. Ah well� -- _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
