How do I make standalone database save it's data?
Jimw1956 at cs.com
Jimw1956 at cs.com
Sat Nov 9 21:43:00 EST 2002
I am new to Revolution. I managed to create a simple database application to
keep a database of videotapes at a local tv station where I work. Everything
works just like I want except for one small detail...I can't figure out how
to save the updated data that I've added to the database when it closes.
I'm from a novice hypercard background, and I'm used to Hypercard
automatically saving changes as they are made, and just assumed Revolution
would do the same thing. After researching the documentation, I found the
part that says that a standalone cannot save changes to itself, and that the
data should be in a seperate stack or file. Unfortunately, I can't figure out
how to do this from the documentation.
I wrote a script into the stack that comes up when the window is closed and
ask if you want to save the changes, I just can't figure out how to actually
save the changes so that when the application is run again, the changes will
be there.
Any help, or locations of tutorials that would help me understand this would
be greatly appreciated.
By the way, the stack and standalone was built in Mac OS-X using the trial
version.
Thanks,
Jim Williams
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