How to save data from standalone?

[Mark Smith]

No, I'm afraid nothing gets saved in a standalone, so you have to  
save data in files or separate substacks.

Mark

On 5 Feb 2006, at 18:01, Marielle Lange wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I know this has been discussed many times before but somehow I  
> couldn't find definitive answers when searching the doc.
>
> I have designed a neat application to manage my urls the cms way  
> (with technorati/delicious type of tagging for each url). You can  
> find an alpha version at: http://www.widged.com/products/ 
> download_manager/. Cool features, keywords auto-completion,  
> keywords list management, etc.
>
> Everything works fine when used in a revstack format. But in  
> standalone format, I cannot get the data to be saved between sessions.
>
> All data in download manager are stored as custom properties. Three  
> questions:
>
> 1. I thought I had read on this list that custom properties were  
> saved in standalone format that there was no need to create a  
> splash screen to handle this. What did I get wrong?
>
> 2. If custom properties get saved when in standalone format, where  
> do they get saved? The issue there is that many computers allow for  
> multi-users mode. Data shouldn't be saved in the application itself  
> but in some user-specific location. So how is it managed?
>
> 3. If custom properties don't get saved when in standalone format,  
> where should I save the user's data between application uses? I  
> don't really want my user to have to open and save the data to a  
> place of its choice every time s/he opens the application. I just  
> want the freshly opened application to look exactly the same as  
> last time the user left it. On a mac, I understand this should be:  
> User/library/Preferences or User/Library/Application Support (with  
> data going preferably in the second rather than the first). What is  
> it on a PC?
>
> Many thanks,
> I will post the answers on the codes CMS (http://codes.widged.com/). .
>
> Marielle
>
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