Confirming a Save command

[Shari]

>I've tested this procedure out, and have found that on the Macintosh
>platform, if the stack being saved is locked, the save command produces a
>copy of the stack with the same name and followed by a tilde.  One also
>gets a message in the result variable which says "Can't open stack file".
>If you save a second time, the message in result is "Can't open stack
>backup file".

If it's the wording that bothers you, you can go into the Metacard 
Menu Bar stacks and change the wording.  I did that with the "Save" 
dialog stack, to use File instead of Stack.  I have not used it in a 
standalone yet, but it works fine in development mode.

Then just make sure to embed/import that stack into your project.

Also, my current project has a save file.  This file is critical to 
the program.  It reads the file on launch, pulls out a bunch of 
information such as user preferences, high scores, etc. and puts them 
into the program, since a standalone cannot "remember".  The program 
saves to this file often, behind the scenes.  If the file gets 
mangled, the program will follow.

So I have a set of data on card 2 of the "save" stack, a set of 
default information.  When it launches, it checks the status of the 
saved data on card 1.  Making sure numbers are numbers, if there are 
supposed to be 5 items, there are.  If a value is supposed to be A or 
B, it is one of them.  And if this check fails, the stack will pull 
the "default" data from card 2, which doesn't change, put it into 
card 1, and launch in "default" mode.  The user will have to reset 
preferences and create new high scores, but at least they won't have 
to reinstall the program, if the data gets mangled.

Shari C
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