Restraining the pencil in Rev

Joe Lewis Wilkins pepetoo at cox.net
Sun Sep 21 11:56:47 EDT 2008


Mark, thanks for the guidance. I'll see if I can finally get this to  
work. I can see there are several concepts that I have yet to master.  
(smile)

Joe Wilkins

On Sep 21, 2008, at 8:42 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote:

> Hi Joe,
>
> I would start with a template stack. When your standalone starts up,  
> it should immediately clone the template and give it a name. For  
> example "Untitled 1".
>
> When the user quits or chooses the Save menu item from the File  
> menu, you can show the prompt, asking whether to save or not, and  
> show the save file dialog window. If the user chooses to save, you  
> can optionally change the name and subsequently save the already  
> cloned stack to the preferred location.
>
> Your script doesn't save the stack, because the cloned stack has no  
> file path. You need to give the save command a file path. Something  
> like
>
>  case "Save As..." -- save copy of stack
>    ask file "Save file as..."
>    if it is not empty then
>      put it into myFile
>      save this stack as myFile
>    end if
>  break
>
> This doesn't work well with substacks but works fine if you clone  
> the stack first.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Mark Schonewille








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