Restraining the pencil in Rev

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

I guess this is my day for confusion. (smile) I'm not using a player  
for any of this.

I have a fairly simple stack consisting of some 50 cards, each of  
which has one or more images and some fields and/or buttons. Using the  
bucket tool, a user may color inside the lines of the images as they  
see fit - often pretty complex. Once colored, they may print portions  
of the cards that I designate in the print routine; but, once the  
stack is closed, all of these colorations disappear. I would like for  
them to be able to Save a copy of the colorized stack under a new  
name, as a document?, from the standalone. Then, as you have indicated  
it can, have that copy open as a document "of" the standalone when  
double clicked upon. So far, I've used:

  	case "Save..."
          answer "Save Coloring Book?" with "Cancel" or "OK"
          if it is "Cancel" then exit menuPick
          save this stack
       break
       case "Save A Copy As..."
          answer "Save a Copy of this Coloring Book?" with "Cancel" or  
"OK"
          if it is "Cancel" then exit menuPick
          clone this stack
          save stack ("Copy of "&(the effective name of this stack))
       break

This kind of works, but doesn't result in a separate stack that  
contains the colored images; just the same as the original, "plain"  
images stack.

Thanks for all your comments.

Joe Wilkins


On Sep 21, 2008, at 1:58 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote:

> Hi Joe,
>
> You can save and open stacks with the same standalone. There is no  
> need for a player. As Richard states, you can use these stacks as  
> documents, in case you need to save custom properties and objects  
> for instance. You can even give these stacks their own extension or  
> file type and, with a little bit of tweaking (more on Windows than  
> on Mac) have them open automatically with your standalone when the  
> users double-clicks on them.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Mark Schonewille