Save in Standalone

[Roger Guay]

> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 15:37:23 +0100
> From: Graham Samuel <graham.samuel at wanadoo.fr>
> Subject: Re: Save in Standalone
> To: RunRev Users List <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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> On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 16:46:28 -0800, Roger Guay 
> <rogerguay at centurytel.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Graham.  Makes sense now that I think about it.  By a "data
>> stack" you must mean a   .rev  stack, as a standalone data stack would
>> have the same problem???  And, since I can't expect my users will have
>> Revolution installed on their machine, I guess I'll have to use
>> external files to save to and pull from?
> Yes, but the external files can be stacks - after all, that's how the 
> IDE
> works, and it's written in Transcript! Look at 'How to store 
> preferences or
> data for a standalone application' in the online documentation. I 
> guess the
> best way to start this off is to have a template stack as a substack of
> your application and then when you start or when the user first wants 
> to do
> a 'Save' (depends on your design), then invoke some code to clone the
> template stack, rename it and save it for the benefit of the user. As a
> matter of fact, I don't myself know how to create a stack completely 
> from
> scratch, and I don't know how the IDE implements 'New Mainstack' and 
> 'New
> Substack' - but I imagine it via this template scheme. I'd be curious 
> to
> know - maybe one of the real gurus on this list will explain (anyone?)
>
> TIA
>
> Graham
>
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> Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK & France

I'm sorry for being a bit slow on this, Graham, but I'm missing some 
basic understanding:  If I use a substack as a data file,  doesn't that 
require that the user have Revolution installed?  Otherwise they are 
necessarily standalones and therefor can't save data.  Isn't that 
right?

Thanks, Roger