Can a Revolution standalone application save data?
Sarah Reichelt
sarahr at genesearch.com.au
Sun Mar 20 20:43:52 EST 2005
>> You can save information in a standalone to a substack of the
>> standalone, just not to the mainstack. For example, you could make
>> make your opening splash screen your main stack, and have any number
>> of substacks affiliated with that main stack. This is how you save
>> information without writing it to the mainstack, which can't be done,
>> you're right.
>
> Uh, Mark, I don't think that's true. You can save data in other stack
> files
> that are on disk, but if the substack is part of the standalone, I
> don't
> think you can save the data because this would change the standalone
> and
> that's a no-no.
>
If you check the box in the Standalone settings that says "Move
substacks into individual stack files", then you can do it this way.
This method allows you to work with a single stack file in the IDE, but
have it writable when you build an app.
Cheers,
Sarah
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