Best Update Standalone Scenario

[Mark Wieder]

Sivakatirswami-

Saturday, October 22, 2005, 12:44:33 PM, you wrote:

> 1)  How do you handle the Splash Screen-Engine-Player after the
> MainStack is opened... set it to invisible? Just let it sit in the  
> background behind everything? I would guess the former, which is more
> normal UI behavior (I mean there is no Splash screen present in the
> visible GUI once the user opens an MS word document, or any Adobe  
> document either...)

Can't (or won't) answer for Chipp here, but here's the entire Splash
Screen script from one of my apps. I put this into the openStack
handler because I *want* the splash screen to be visible if there's a
problem opening the main stack. Then the user is presented with the
splash screen, which has a field that says that an error has occurred
and they should contact me.

on openStack
  set the visible of me to false
  open stack "LPMain" -- the mainStack for this app
  close me
end openStack

> 2) Marie Signe recently said the special folder path to /Application
> Data/ on Windows was (26)... this email say (35) ....

The difference here is whether you want a single file installed for
all users on the computer to share or just for the current user (in
which case different users on the computer would have separate copies
of the file). Use (35) for the first case and (26) for the second
case.

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net