a basic stupid splashscreen question

[Chipp Walters]

Here's one way to do it.

Have your standalone have a substack called "dataTemplate." Because 
"dataTemplate" is a subStack of a standalone, you can never save it. So, 
when your app launches, you can do the following: (from my memory so 
please forgive typos)

go inv stack "dataTemplate"
set the name of stack "dataTemplate" to "myDataFile"
save stack "dataTemplate" as "myDataFile.rev"
-->THIS SAVES IT IN THE SAME DIRECTORY AS YOUR STANDALONE
-->AND NOW YOU CAN OPEN IT, WRITE TO IT AND SAVE IT
delete stack "dataTemplate"
-->THIS REMOVES dataTemplate FROM MEMORY
go inv stack "myDataFile.rev"
-->NOW myDataFile.rev IS OPEN AND CAN BE REFERRED TO BY
-->ITS NAME "myDatafile"
-->DO STUFF TO STACK myDataFile
compact stack myDataFile
save stack myDataFile

Notice, I'm keeping the data stacks invisible. I do this so that I can 
really separate the data from the presentation layer of the app. I copy 
the data I need to the main stack where it is edited/modified/tweaked 
and copied back to the data stack and saved.

Hope that helps,

best,

Chipp

kee nethery wrote:

> So in the folder containing the main spash screen stack, when the user 
> first installs this bundle of joy, they will have A) one App and one 
> stack or B) they will have just one App and no loose stacks sitting 
> around. Then when they launch the App, it will find 1) the App in the 
> same folder or 2) it will save the stack off to the same folder, or 3) 
> it will save it somewhere else and then save a preferences file 
> someplace to tell it where it put the data stack? This extra data stack 
> is I) your stack that has all the actual code in it that does what the 
> App does or it II) just contains data and the splash screen App has the 
> actual code in it?