on startup and on shutdown

[Frank Leahy]

Tom,

If you're trying to store the property into a stack that resides on the 
CD, you're toast because the CD is read-only.

The only way to do what you want is to either:

1) Copy at least one stack to the user's disk and store the properties 
there, or

2) Create a preferences file where you store the property data on the 
user's disk, and read/write that prefs file on startup and shutdown.

As for using preOpenStack or a startup handler -- if you have a 
preOpenStack handler in your main stack, then you'll have to have an 
empty preOpenStack handler in each substack so that the main stack's 
preOpenStack handler is overridden.  Like this:

on preOpenStack
   -- This overrides the main stack handler.
   -- Do not call "pass preOpenStack" otherwise the main stack handler 
will get called.
end preOpenStack


Best,
-- Frank Leahy

On Sunday, January 11, 2004, at 01:56 PM, 
use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

>
> Either a custom prop can store info collected during use or if not,
> then a sep stack needs to do it????
> Which one?