Stacks inside OSX Package

[Sivakatirswami]

I rarely contribute here because I feel was outclassed. But sometimes 
things can be simple.

I know that many know this already, but because newbies may not...

I just did my first standalone where I added a data stack (where data is 
saved) right inside the standalone package on OSX.  I build in house 
production tools for our editors and team here for different things. and 
distribution of a "player" and the actual "app" (which was a stack that 
needed to save data and has all the functional code in it) as two 
component thing was a bit of a nuisance. Things inevitably get 
separated...  Now I can tell everyone "it's double clickable, no 
problem, when you are finished, just put it back on the server..."

I can even dig that data stack, from inside the app, over the network 
from their public folder and update it and read or extract their work...

I should try Ken Ray's stack runner one day...For those who may not have 
the time or need for such things as the GLX framework (I still have the 
documentation on my desk, not sure when I will ever get a chance to read 
it...)

 From the House of Keep It Simple:

All you really need to get started in your splash screen is:

on openstack
  send "BootMe" to me in 2 seconds
end openstack

on BootMe
  topLevel "MyDataStack.rev"
end BootMet

On closeStack
   if the environment <> "development" then quit
end closeStack

then make your standalone and then put your "MyDataStack.rev"  in

MyStandAlone.app
    /Contents
      /MacOS
         MyStandAlone # this is the *real* standalone inside the package
         MyDataStack.rev

Just make sure you have a lot of save routines in your MyDataStack.rev

on closestack
  save this stack
end CloseStack

a save button on the UI (or menus)

I also always add an auto save (every five minutes) to most of my stuff 
that I distribute to volunteers

on openStack
  send "SaveMe" to me in 300 seconds
end OpenStack

on SaveMe
   save this stack
   send "SaveMe" to me in 300 seconds
end SaveMe

and I never get any support calls for "Oh, I did this or that and lost 
everything."

Meanwhile The Great Adobe, clobbers me on the head with problems at 
least 2 or three times a month.
Freeze, force quit, can't reboot, got to go and trash bogus recovery 
files and cache, restart your machine and *maybe* just maybe the work 
you were doing up to the point of the crash was saved... or not..

point: Revolution is probably one of the most stable apps on my machine.