A few years ago, I wrote an information mapping application for a company that creates information maps (!!) that runs on both Macs and Windows platforms. Recently one of the people from the company contacted me because it no longer worked on his new Intel-Mac.
I recompiled the app under 2.8.1 as a universal binary. However, besides needing UB, he is getting hit by the change in file formats that happened in V2.7 of Rev. The Maps they create are really stacks and when he creates a stack under the UB version, it is no longer readable under the older, pre-UB (read: made with Rev 2.6.1) version. These maps are shared among various people, using various versions of my application, so they need to be compatible across versions. The easy solution is to save all the maps in the legacy format. I've confirmed this works by manually saving the stack in the legacy format via the IDE. It is then readable with the older standalone version of my program. The problem I'm having is that I can not find any way to save stacks in the legacy format from within my program. The only information I've found on this anywhere is three lines in the "What's New" document saying that the IDE can save in the new and the old format. There is nothing in the dictionary and nothing in the PDF docs. Surely there must be some way to save in Legacy format from within Transcript! Have I missed something obvious somewhere? In addition, I couldn't find any way to determine which format a file was already saved in. This seems fairly crucial since reading a stack saved in the new format from an app assuming the legacy format creates, uh, a bizarre experience. Surely there must be some way to determine beforehand if this will happen. So, basically I'm looking for two things: 1) How can you select between the new format and the legacy format when saving a stack with Transcript? 2) How can you determine what format an existing stack has been saved in? And where is the documentation on this fairly significant change in Revolution? -- Regards, Howard Bornstein ----------------------- www.designeq.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
